A new screening method for osmotic component of salinity tolerance in cereals using infrared thermography

A high-throughput, automated image analysis protocol for the capture, identification and analysis of thermal images acquired with a long-wave infrared (IR) camera was developed to quantify the osmotic stress response of wheat and barley to salinity. There was a strong curvilinear relationship between direct measurements of stomatal conductance and leaf temperature of barley grown in a range of salt concentrations. This indicated that...