Following the opinions expressed in Krajewski et al., we are presenting a new paper summarising the solutions proposed for the improvement of phenotypic data description:

Hanna Ćwiek‑Kupczyńska, Thomas Altmann, Daniel Arend, Elizabeth Arnaud, Dijun Chen, Guillaume Cornut, Fabio Fiorani, Wojciech Frohmberg, Astrid Junker, Christian Klukas, Matthias Lange, Cezary Mazurek, Anahita Nafissi, Pascal Neveu, Jan van Oeveren, Cyril Pommier, Hendrik Poorter, Philippe Rocca‑Serra, Susanna‑Assunta Sansone, Uwe Scholz, Marco van Schriek, Ümit Seren, Björn Usadel, Stephan Weise, Paul Kersey and Paweł Krajewski
Measures for interoperability of phenotypic data: minimum information requirements and formatting 
Plant Methods, 2016. DOI 10.1186/s13007-016-0144-4