The National Plant Phenotyping Infrastructure (NaPPI) was established to overcome the challenges in linking genotypes to phenotypes in fundamental and applied plant research. In this role NaPPI is advancing state-of-the-art Finnish plant science by providing access to specialized imaging instruments for monitoring plant growth, morphology and physiology, such as leaf temperature, spectral profiling and photosynthesis. NaPPI is a distributed research infrastructure currently with two nodes at UH and UEF that have complementing activities allowing wide range of phenotyping services to the research community across the country. NaPPI nodes offer access to high-throughput plant phenomics and to high precision spectral imaging and molecular omics platforms. In combination with the phenomics facilities and access to metabolomics services, the NaPPI installations provide a step towards bridging the gaps between whole-plant phenotypes of growth, development and physiology with integrated molecular profiles. By participating in phenomics data standardization efforts at the Nordic and European level, NaPPI is promoting technologies required for open scientific data in plant sciences. Following FAIR data standards has allowed NaPPI to engage in development of integrated HTPP crop modeling.

Professor Pirjo Mäkelä
pirjo.makela@helsinki.fi

Professor Markku Keinänen
markku.keinanen@uef.fi

Dr Kristiina Himanen
kristiina.himanen@helsinki.fi