6. Phenotyping and Genotyping of Plants

The digitization of the economy and society naturally does not fail to include agriculture. Having a plant‐based bioeconomy as primary production for many downstream industries is a key component of digital transformation. The biological transformation of the economy, or rather of the world, derived from the much‐vaunted trend of digitization, is thereby extended by another very interesting component. This is ultimately the optimization—at least at specific points—of biology by biology. In other words, the optimization of plants as biological systems is carried out using technological processes and methods, the approach and design of which have been modeled on or inspired by various biological principles. On the technological side, bio‐inspired systems include spectral sensors and, in particular, artificial intelligence as the central component required for the phenotyping needed to achieve the aforementioned optimization.