Guidelines and best practices on the use of multi-omics and phenotyping technologies in crop improvement

This document summarizes the guidelines and best practices for crop phenotyping and genotyping for mproved resilience as developed, standardized and validated by CROPINNO partners. The aim was to develop guidelines and share best practices on how the multi-omics and phenotyping tools used in research projects at all participants can be utilized to set up future research projects and the Climate Crop Centre in Serbia. The best-practices at the established phenotyping centre of Jülich Plant Phenotyping Center (JPPC) at FZJ and UNIPD Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), with long record of application of -omics technologies and cooperation with the industry, were collected guidelines, along with insights from University of Rostock and recommendations from CSIC, who is one of the founders of The Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) that has extensive experience in leading-edge research of the molecular basis of genetic characters of interest in plants and farm animals, and in the applications of molecular approaches for breeding of species important for agriculture and food production. In the following we report the developed guidelines and summarize the shared best practices on the use of multi-omics (2.1) and phenotyping (2.2.) technologies in crop improvement.