Creating high-resolution genetic maps by high-throughput phenotyping of inoculated grapevine samples in order to characterize genetic resistance against the powdery mildew pathogen.This research was conducted under the scope of the VitisGen2 project led by Cornell University.

They currently have 8 Blackbird Imaging systems working in parallel which are being used for experiments with a huge number of samples with a wide variety of different genotypes. At this point, they have been  facing an important bottleneck when preparing the samples manually so we have provided our expertise to develop automated systems to speed up this process.