• Discusses recent advances in the use of phenotyping techniques to enhance current cereal crop breeding programmes
• Considers the application of phenotyping techniques in controlled environments
• Includes a selection of useful case studies which illustrate the application of phenotyping techniques in an array of agricultural settings

Roland Pieruschka is currently a plant scientist at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, IBG2: Plant Sciences after his PhD at the University of Düsseldorf and Postdoc at the Carnegie Institution in Stanford. He has been interested in physiological concepts and plant-environment interactions, particularly plant phenotyping, which he combines with establishment and coordination of international plant phenotyping research infrastructures (EMPHASIS), research infrastructure projects (EPPN, EPPN2020), international networks (IPPN).