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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><img width="311" height="36" style="width:3.2395in;height:.375in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D96942.E1D7BAF0" alt="The Plant Phenome Journal"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Calling all Phenomicists!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">The Plant Phenome Journal would like to invite submissions to the
</span><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">Affordable Phenomics
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/25782703/specialsectioncall__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!DJHtVABaA0nHHS2e28V2bmkVjVtu-Pe8JWGBUqT4ksbR-Mpi1RuglWGB1a0kPW8-6NZi4GBQmatVoPdoQXDRoBjzh8rlmQ$">Special
section</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">High-throughput phenotyping is an emerging area of plant and crop sciences, with potential impact to enhance productivity, functionality, and stress
tolerance. Therefore, it has become ever more important for plant breeding and genetics research programs, of different resource and expertise levels, to adopt phenomics technologies. The growing open access efforts within the phenomics community is enabling
initiatives to reduce the costs of sensors and sensor platforms. The goal of this special section is to provide visibility to diverse efforts in the development of affordable hardware and software aimed at enhancing the breadth and depth in which plants are
phenotyped in experimental and applied settings.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">The paper topics of interest for this issue include, but are not limited to, the following: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Low-cost phenomics initiatives</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1C1D1E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Development of new sensor hardware for identifying plant and crop traits</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1C1D1E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Democratization of systems and analysis pipelines for measuring plant and crop traits</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1C1D1E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Design and conceptualization of sensors for detecting plant and crop traits</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1C1D1E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Identification of materials and specifications in the construction of sustainable information and communications technology (ICT) devices and sensors for plant phenotyping </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">Special Section Editors:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Valerio Hoyos-Villegas, McGill University</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1C1D1E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Keshav Singh, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1C1D1E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Sindhuja Sankaran, Washington State University</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1C1D1E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;background:white">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Sofia Sandhu, University of Glasgow</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">To submit, follow the
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tppj?utm_source=google&utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_campaign=R3MR425&utm_content=LifeSciences__;!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!DJHtVABaA0nHHS2e28V2bmkVjVtu-Pe8JWGBUqT4ksbR-Mpi1RuglWGB1a0kPW8-6NZi4GBQmatVoPdoQXDRoBgR6udm6w$">
link</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">For inquiries, feel free to contact the special section lead: Valerio Hoyos-Villegas (</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:Valerio.hoyos-villegas@mcgill.ca"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Valerio.hoyos-villegas@mcgill.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">Submissions Open</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">: March 2023<br>
<b>Submissions Deadline: </b>July 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">As a side note: The ASA, CSSA, and SSSA have eliminated excess author page fees for gold open access journals, including Agrosystems, Geosciences
& Environment, The Plant Genome, <b>The Plant Phenome Journal</b> and Vadose Zone Journal, effective with manuscripts accepted and published after 31 December 2022. The Tri-societies have been committed to high quality publishing, peer review, and ethics for
many years. Like many <u>nonprofit</u> Tri-society publications, our journals’ revenue streams support the mission programs to lead and disseminate research in the agronomic, crop and soil sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-CO"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="ES-CO" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Valerio Hoyos-Villegas, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Assistant Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Adjunct Lecturer, Lincoln University (New Zealand)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Associate Editor:
</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Journal of Plant Registrations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Technical Editor:</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"> Crop Science, The Plant Phenome<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Twitter:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">McDonald-Stewart Building (Lab: MS1-111, Office: MS2-067)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Ste. Anne de Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">514-398-7856<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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