The Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob is not only an independent large-scale research project but also links the different disciplines involved and support joint research. It serves as a platform that integrates other, thematically related research projects, their insights and participating researchers. PhenoRob integrates the following key related projects into its Core Projects.
Core Project 1: 4D Crop Reconstruction
| Agency | Project ID/Name | Involved Members | Period |
| BMBF | NoviSys – Novel viticulture systems for sustainable production and products | Kuhlmann, Klingbeil | 2015-2020 |
| DFG | FOR 2535: Anticipating Human Behavior | Gall, Behnke, Bennewitz | 2017-2021 |
| Gates Foundation | Cassava Source-Sink: Metabolic engineering of carbon pathways to enhance yield of root and tuber crops | Rascher | 2019-2024 |
| ESA | PhotoProxy: Technical Assistance for the Photosynthetic Proxy Experiment | Rascher | until 2022 |
| EC | SPECTORS: Sensor Products for Enterprises Creating Technological Opportunities in airborne Remote Sensing | Rascher | 2016–2020 |
| DFG | Advancing structural-functional modelling of root growth and root-soil interactions based on automatic reconstruction of root systems from MRI | Behnke | 2015-2020 |
Core Project 2: Relevance Detection of Crop Features
| Agency | Project ID/Name | Involved Members | Period |
| DFG | SPP2089: Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation – a Key to Rhizosphere Functions | Vanderborght | since 2018 |
| BMBF | Competence Center Machine Learning Rhine-Ruhr ML2R | Wrobel, Bauckhage | 2019-2022 |
| Fraunhofer | Fraunhofer Zentrum Maschinelles Lernen | Wrobel, Bauckhage | 2018-2020 |
| DFG | GRK 2064 Water use efficiency and drought stress responses | Léon, Schaaf | 2015-2020 |
| BMEL | DePhense: Deep Phenotyping of Plant Disease Resistance | Mahlein | |
| BMEL | Digital Experimental Field Site Farmer Space | Mahlein | |
| COBRI | Sensing of plant diseases by spectral imaging and UAVs in variety trials | Mahlein | |
| BMBF | CROP: Combining Root contrasted Phenotypes for more resilient agro-ecosystems | Lobet, Schnepf | 2020-2024 |
Core Project 3: The Soil-Root-Zone
| Agency | Project ID/Name | Involved Members | Period |
| EC | EMPHASIS: European Multi-Environment Plant Phenotyping and Simulation Infrastructure | Schurr | since 2016 |
| BMBF | SPP 2089: Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation – a Key to Rhizosphere Functions: Modelling self-organisation in the rhizosphere | Schnepf | 2018-2021 |
| BMBF | SPP 2089: Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation – a Key to Rhizosphere Functions: Visualization and quantification of spatiotemporally resolved carbon allocation within the root system and rhizosphere microbiota of maize | Knief, Koller | 2018-2021 |
| BMBF | Soil3: Potential field site with organic matter burial for root sensing and modelling | Bauke, Amelung, Schnepf, Seidel, Gaiser, Ewert | 2015-2024 |
| BMBF | Bonares INPLAMINT | Brüggemann | 2015-2021 |
| BMBF | Soil3: Sustainable Subsoil Management | Amelung, Ewert | 2015-2024 |
| DFG | Advancing structural-functional modelling of root growth and root-soil interactions based on automatic reconstruction of root systems from MRI | Behnke, Schnepf | 2015-2020 |
| BMBF | CROP: Combining Root contrasted Phenotypes for more resilient agro-ecosystems | Lobet, Schnepf | 2020-2024 |
Core Project 4: Autonomous In-Field Intervention
| Agency | Project ID/Name | Involved Members | Period |
| DFG | FOR2131: Data Assimilation for Improved Characterization of Fluxes Across Compartmental Interfaces | Simmer, Hendricks-Franssen, Vereecken, Kollet | until 2021 |
| EC | ATLAS (H2020): Agricultural interoperability and analysis system | Hendricks-Franssen | 2019-2022 |
| BLE | VitiSoil – Sensor utilization in viticulture with minimized CO2-footprint and fungus-resistant cultivars | Brüggemann, Pätzold | 2018-2021 |
| BMBF | Bonares Soil3: process-based modelling of water and nutrient uptake from the subsoil | Seidel, Amelung, Bauke | until 2024 |
| BMBF | Bonares Soil3: soil mapping of agricultural field sites using GPR and EMI at long term agricultural field sites including Kleinaltendorf | Bauke | |
| Early detection of drought stress using sun induced chlorophyll fluorescence | Jonard | 2018-2022 | |
| BMEL | OptiMech: Optimizing strategies for weed control in Medicinal and Aromatic plant cultivation | Pude | 2019-2022 |
| Helmholtz | HDS-LEE: Helmholtz School for Data Science in Life, Earth and Energy | Vereecken, Hendricks-Franssen, Kollet | 2019-2022 |
| Helmholtz | TERENO: Terrestrial Environment Observatories | Vereecken | since 2008 |
| BMBF | DAKIS: Digital Agricultural Knowledge and Information System | Gaiser, Montzka | 2020-2024 |
| Helmholtz | ESM – Advanced Earth System Modelling Capacity | Hendricks-Franssen, Kollet | 2017-2040 |
| EC | EoCoE (H2020): Energy oriented center of excellence: towards exascale for energy | Hendricks-Franssen, Kollet | until 2022 |
| FNR/BMEL | Optimising strategies for weed control in medicinal and aromatic plant cultivation focusing organic production systems | Döring | 2019-2022 |
| Helmholtz | ADAPTER: ADAPT tERrestrail systems | McCool, Vanderborght, Kollet | 2019-2023 |
Core Project 5: New Field Arrangements
| Agency | Project ID/Name | Involved Members | Period |
| BMBF | BonaRes-I4S (Intelligence for Soil): Mid-infared and gamma spectroscopy as complementary tools for site-specific management of soil fertility | Pätzold | 2018-2021 |
| BMBF | DAKIS: Digital Agricultural Knowledge and Information System | Gaiser, Montzka | 2020-2024 |
| BLE | VitiSoil – Sensor utilization in viticulture with minimized CO2-footprint and fungus-resistant cultivars | Brüggemann, Pätzold | 2018-2021 |
| DFG | Combined strategies for reducing soil salinization and the mechanism of their interactive effects on crop growth | Gaiser, Seidel | 2020-2022 |
| LANUV NRW | OPTIKO – Optimierung des Kohlanbaus durch Messungen mit UAVs und maschinellem Lernen | Roscher Rascher | |
| BMU | KISTE – KI-Strategie für Erdsystemdaten | Roscher | since 2020 |
Core Proect 6: Technology Adoption and Impact
| Agency | Project ID/Name | Involved Members | Period |
| EC | LIFT: Low-Input Farming and Territories – Integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming (H2020) | Britz | 2018-2022 |
| EC | MIND STEP: Modelling Individual Decisions to Support The European Policies related to agriculture | Heckelei, Britz | 2019-2023 |
| BioSc | Tranform2Bio: Integrated Transformation Processes and their Regional Implementations – Structural Change from Fossil-Economy to Bioeconomy | Börner, Heckelei, Britz, Hartmann, von Braun, Schurr | 2019-2022 |
| BMBF | STRIVE: Sustainable Trade and Innovation Transfer in the global Bioeconomy | Börner, Britz | 2016-2021 |
| BMEL | Transformation and Sustainability in South American Bioeconomies | Börner | 2019-2024 |
| BMBF | BEST: Bio-Economy in Europe and SDGs: Development, Contribution and Trade-Offs | Börner, Britz | 2019-2022 |