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Phenotyping is a critical process in plant breeding, especially with the increasing demand for streamlining the selection process. However, manual phenotyping is inefficient and high-throughput phenotyping methods are often difficult to introduce in size-limited fields. We have developed a high-throughput field phenotyping rover optimized for size-limited breeding fields as open-source hardware, and demonstrated its capability to efficiently measure the wheat heading process using deep-learning image analysis (This issue, p. 66–74).

(W. GUO: Field Phenomics Laboratory, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo)