Plant-DiTech

Studying and examining whole-plant properties today is still as challenging as ever, through all the technological advancement. It is harder to learn the plant status in real-time, and even harder to do so in many plants simultaneously.

Understanding the plant functional performance in high throughput to overcome long testing periods during research and development cycles, is one of the main bottlenecks today in Agriculture R&D.

In efforts to provide a solution to these challenges, Plant DiTech developed the PlantArray phenotyping and diagnostic system, a platform for measurement and analysis of whole-plants characteristics and performance -in real-time, simultaneously, and continuously to all the plants in the array. This enables Agro-Companies to release products to market much earlier, and with high confidence of reaching their targets.

The PlantArray system is a fully automated and sensor-based system which is used to conduct research and simultaneous trials on water-use, productivity, and growth aspects of the whole-plant. In addition, it can measure and analyze phenotyping and environmental effects to predict yield performance under various environmental stresses.

Some of the plant traits being measured are precise plant water-loss (transpiration), plant biomass gain, water-use-efficiency, nutrients effect, root water-uptake, stomatal conductance and more.

Plant-DiTech is a patented technology, with over 30 academic articles using the PlantArray solution, and distinguished customers such as Wageningen Research & University, ICL, Haifa Chemicals, Mars Wrigley, and more. The company is a spin-off from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the faculty of agriculture, Israel.

It is not to be leveraged also to the indoor farming market, with decision support autonomous irrigation devices.