Plant mechanical failure, also known as lodging, is the cause of significant and unpredictable yield losses in cereal crops. Lodging can be divided into two distinct failure modes - stalk lodging and root lodging. Despite the prevalence and detrimental impact of lodging on crop yields, there is little consensus on how to phenotype plants in the field for lodging-resistance and thus breed for mechanically resilient plants. This review focuses on providing an overview of the approaches that have been employed for field-based mechanical testing to individually assess stalk and root lodging-resistance . These approaches are placed in the context of future perspectives for this important area of plant phenotyping .
Plant mechanical failure, also known as lodging, is the cause of significant and unpredictable yield losses in cereal crops. Lodging occurs in two distinct failure modes - stalk lodging and root lodging. Despite the prevalence and detrimental impact of lodging on crop yields, there is little consensus on how to phenotype plants in the field for lodging resistance and thus breed for mechanically resilient plants. This review provides an overview of field-based mechanical testing approaches to assess stalk and root lodging resistance . These approaches are placed in the context of future perspectives . Best practices and recommendations for acquiring field-based mechanical phenotypes of plants are also presented .
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