The European Research Infrastructures (RI) on plant phenotyping (EMPHASIS), ecosystems experimentation ( AnaEE ), long term observation ( eLTER ) and data management and bioinformatics (ELIXIR) join their forces in the EU funded project PHENET to codevelop next generation of tools, methods for the development of crop varieties, agricultural management practices to face future climatic scenarios across Europe and accompany agroecological transition. These tools are tested in a range of use cases addressing specific scientific questions and will result in new services that will be implemented and available within the RIs involved in PHENET.
With this webinar series we provide an overview of the nine PHENET use cases, we address their scientific questions, present the tools that will be developed and provide a platform for a discussion and exchange with different stakeholders from academia and industry. Each webinar will include multiple speakers addressing a methodological section with presentation of latest developments in hardware, software, modelling solutions followed by applications of these methods to address relevant scientific questions illustrating how next generation phenotyping and envirotyping tools and methods can help
to analyse different facets of the soil component, to explore the complex biotic interactions in agroecosystems, to decipher the complex genotypes by environment interaction, and to foresee how these tools and methods can be used to assess crops and forests across scales.

Speakers:
Bertrand Muller, INRAE
- Introduction of PHENET and the webinar
Ines Chaves, ITQB
- Building on Soil Ontologies
Ilja Reiter, CNRS
- Soil in ecological & agroecological settings
Hans Sanden, BOKU
- In situ subsurface soil properties estimation with Vis NIR spectroscopy
Nadia Soudzilovskaia, Univ. Haselt
- Towards understanding soil phenology