Plant Phenotyping Market Size (2023 - 2030)
The market size of the global Plant Phenotyping Market is at USD 260.5 million in 2022 and is expected to reach USD 407.71 million by 2030 with a growing CAGR of 11.24% during the forecast period.

Plant phenotyping is a set of procedures and tools used to measure plant characteristics or phenotypes like color, height, etc. Primarily phenotypes are affected by the environmental elements and interactions between the genes.

Plant phenotyping is generally carried out manually. Plant phenotyping uses the latest sensors for monitoring the environmental effect on plants besides plants' response towards environmental factors. The plant phenotyping market is likely to receive strong motivation with the increasing use of drones for phenotyping, in certain countries with the dearth of workforce and ease of data acquisition.

Around 90% of the food crops are grown from seeds that are distributed widely across national and international. Plant phenotyping procedure is adopted to eradicate the growing number of seed diseases that affect crop productivity and reproduce better and disease-free crop varieties.

Market Drivers
The demand for food is rising owing to the increase in the global population and the high-throughput plant phenotyping platform fuels the market growth. The quick rise in the population and the requirement for food security through high-yield crops mount the plant phenotyping market.

Quick developments in plant phenotyping are envisioned to upgrade the selection of breeding efforts, facilitate genetic gains and curtail qualitative and quantitative losses for crop production, and automated plant health monitoring. The factors help in strengthening the plant phenotyping market growth further.

Advanced economies are investing high for increasing superior crop yields, swift and continuous research, and development activities, and obtainability of remote sensing solutions along with growing adoption of precision irrigation fosters the market growth of plant phenotyping. The automation techniques are highly adopted for the plant growth flourishes the plant phenotyping market growth.

 
Market Restrains
However, the shortage of conceptual and technical knowledge and less adoption in developing countries because of restricted funds hinder the plant phenotyping market.

Recent Market Developments 

• On January 05, 2022, VIB acquired CropDesign site from BASF and launched its first agricultural biotechnology incubator. VIB and CropDesign have had a close scientific relationship for more than 15years.

Segment Analysis

The plant phenotyping market is based on the product, equipment, services, application, and end-user.

 
Plant Phenotyping Market - By Product
•    Equipment
•    Software
•    Data acquisition
•    Image analysis
•    System control
•    Others (data management, schedule assistant, experiment design, and database configuration)

Sensors
•    Image sensors
•    NDVI sensors
•    Temperature sensors
•    Others (humidity sensors and ultrasonic distance sensors)
Based on the product, the equipment segment accounted for the largest share in the plant phenotyping market. The plant phenotyping manufacturers offer a wide range of equipment used in fields, greenhouses, and laboratories.

The image analysis sub-segment dominates the software segment in the plant phenotyping market. With automated digital cameras, the demand for image-based plant phenotyping is surging. Also, the sub-segment image analysis provides a high-throughput plant and is to be performed within a restricted time. 

Plant Phenotyping Market - By Equipment

• By site

• Laboratory

• Greenhouse

• Field

By platform/carrier

• Conveyor-based/modular systems

• Bench-based systems

• Handheld/Portable systems

• Drones

By level of automation

• Fully automated

• Semi-automated

• Manual

By analysis system

• Image analysis systems

• Multispectral scientific cameras

• Canopy analysis systems

• Fluorometers

• Others (3D scanners, porometers (stomatal conductance), screening systems, phytoplankton & photosynthesis analyzers, infrared gas analyzers, laser scanners, germination systems, root phenotyping systems, and gravimetric systems)

By application

• High-throughput screening

• Trait identification

• Photosynthetic performance

• Morphology and growth assessment

• Others (nutrient management, abiotic stress measurement, pathogen interaction, chemical screening, and nutrient effect measurement)

Based on the equipment, the application segment leads the plant phenotyping market. In the application segment, the high-throughput sud-segment dominates the market growth.

Plant Phenotyping Market - By Services

• Measurement & data analysis

• Statistical analysis

Based on the services, the data analysis, and measurement segment is said to obtain strong demand from research institutions, academics, and other market players. Field-based phenotyping requires measurement and data analysis services as hundreds of plant measurements are to be taken.

Plant Phenotyping Market - By Application

• Plant Research

• Breeding

• Product Development

• Quality Assessment

The breeding application segment accounts for the largest share in the plant phenotyping market.

 Plant Phenotyping Market - By End-User

• Greenhouse

• Field​​​​​​

• Laboratory

Based on the end-user, the field segment dominated the plant phenotyping market during the foreseen period. 
The greenhouse segment is expected to extend with the highest CAGR over the timeline period. The greenhouse segment growth owes to

Regional Analysis

Regionally, North America is dominating the plant phenotyping market with the highest share. The governments across the region are investing highly in the agriculture field. Also, public and private organizations are increasingly initiating advanced technologies.

Europe is estimated to have impressive growth in the plant phenotyping market. The regional growth attributes to the execution of new technologies like analysis tools and data management. The purpose of the European Plant Phenotyping Network (EPPN) project is to create structural and functional collaborations among the major leading phenotyping institutions in Europe and collaborating plant phenotyping community.

Germany is foreseen to grow at nearly 12.0% CAGR. The surging automation and considerable advancements in the application of imaging sensors for high-throughput data collection foster market growth in Europe.

In 2018, Photon Systems Instruments from the Czech Republic developed the Robin PSI PlantScreen TM system based on certain needs set by Wageningen University & Research, Czech Republic.

However, Asia-Pacific is to be the swiftest-growing region in the plant phenotyping market. The demand for food and the need to address the challenges is high in the APAC region.

China is projected to remain the quickest-growing in the APAC region followed by India, Australia, and South Korea.

Latin America and the Middle East and African regions are expected to have notable growth in plant phenotyping as certain companies in the regions are collaborating and co-development as a process of advancing their present product and product utilization.

Major vendors in the global Plant Phenotyping Market
1. LemnaTec (Germany)

2. CropDesign - BASF SE (Germany)

3. Heinz Walz (Germany)

4. Photon Systems Instruments (Czech Republic)

5. Qubit Systems (Canada)

6. KeyGene (Netherlands)

7. Delta-T Devices (UK)

8. Phenospex (Netherlands)

9. WPS (Netherlands)

10. Rothamsted Research (UK)

11. The Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities (Austria)

12. Phenomix (France).

COVID-19 Impact On Global Plant Phenotyping Market
The sudden emergence of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was originated in December 2022, Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced an emergency public health issue. The pandemic crisis has badly influenced the world's economy and every businesses sector. Agri-biotechnology is one sector that is largely affected due to the pandemic. 
The impact of the pandemic is likely to curb plant phenotyping growth globally due to the pretended supply of agricultural products, shortage of labor, and interruption of farming activities. Compared to other industries and markets, the global plant phenotyping market has experienced a negative effect due to the sudden outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. However, developing conditions throughout the world help market players recapture the lost traction over the upcoming years. 
The pandemic effect depends on restricting the advancements of the global plant phenotyping market throughout the foreseen period, deductive from the controlled supply of rural items, shortage of workforce because of imposed lockdowns, and obstruction of cultivating exercises.