Recognising our infrastructure specialists
At the APPF, our Infrastructure Specialists are vital to our capabilities and our capacity to deliver cutting-edge phenomics for clients and partners. With that in mind, APPF Executive Director Dr [...]
APPF proudly supports Plants For Space!
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is proud to announce we are a supporting partner for the newly announced Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plants For Space [...]
Connecting and cooperating: ICRI 2022
The biennial International Conference for Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2022) was held in Brno, Czech Republic, from 19th to 21st October. ICRI 2022 was a fantastic event involving 450 participants, almost [...]
APPF Team visits Medicago facilities in Quebec
In August 2022, representatives from the ANU Canberra node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility visited the Quebec City headquarters of Medicago R&D Inc. The Canadian biopharmaceutical company is collaborating [...]
APPF ANU welcomes first ARC Training Centre student
Traditional PhD training in crop science is getting an overhaul with the establishment of the new ARC Training Centre for Future Crops Development. The Centre will train a new generation [...]
First nations knowledge in Australian research
As part of NAIDOC Week 2022, Australia's national research infrastructure recognised Indigenous knowledge and research. APPF is proud to be contributing its skills and resources to research based on First [...]
Root direction points to drought resilience
Researchers at the University of Adelaide, working alongside scientists from the UK, Italy, Germany and the USA, have successfully identified a gene that controls the growth pattern of roots in [...]
APPF seeks Postgraduate Internship applications
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is welcoming applications for its Postgraduate Student Internship Awards. The Awards, which cover up to $10,000 worth of access to APPF phenomics infrastructure plus [...]
Medical technology adapted to plant research
X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT) scanners have become essential equipment for human health research and diagnosis in hospitals around the world. Now, scientists at The Plant Accelerator®, University of Adelaide node [...]
phenoMobile arrives in South Australia
phenoMobile®, the mobile field phenotyping platform developed at the High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre (HRPPC), APPF’s CSIRO Canberra Node, has arrived in South Australia for use by University of Adelaide [...]
APPF researchers support bushfire recovery
Researchers at the Australian National University Plant Phenomics Facility, a Canberra-based Node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, have used sophisticated phenotyping technology to identify Eucalyptus seedlings that will provide [...]
Traction Tour gives insights to agri-food
APPF Executive Director Dr Susie Robinson recently joined an Australian delegation which visited The Netherlands and Denmark to see the European agri-food industry in action. The unique experience, part of [...]
NCRIS: The power behind Australia’s science
Australian science continues to make national and international headlines, most recently focusing on how the science community helps us deal with major challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the [...]
EOI invitation: Phenomobile® and Cropatron
The CSIRO node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is inviting expressions of interest from plant scientists to undertake pilot projects for their phenoMobile® field phenotyping buggy and for [...]
Plant Biology meets Computer Vision – reimagining plant phenotyping
Last month, Canadian biopharmaceutical company Medicago R&D Inc., the APPF and the Centre for Entrepreneurial Agri-Technology (CEAT) at ANU successfully completed the first phase of a five-year research collaboration to [...]
Pilot project invitation – X-Ray CT phenotyping system
The APPF is inviting applications from plant scientists wishing to undertake pilot projects using the new X-ray CT phenotyping system at the APPF's Adelaide Node - The Plant Accelerator. We [...]
Potential for hyperspectral data in crop breeding decisions
The APPF's newest project “Advancing remote sensing benefits to agriculture through hyperspectral processing” has been accepted by the UK/Australia Space Bridge. The UK/Australia Space Bridge involves the SmartSat CRC, the [...]
Seaweed extracts could reduce nitrogen fertiliser use
In some good news for sustainable agriculture, work aided by the APPF with Seasol® has shown the positive effect of seaweed extracts on nitrogen use and photosynthesis. Future agricultural systems [...]
Enhancing sorghum grain yield and nutrition
Sorghum is an important cereal food crop in many parts of the world, often cultivated and consumed in low- and middle-income countries and frequently grown with low fertiliser inputs. Past [...]
Postgraduate Student Internship Award grants round open
The next round of Postgraduate Internship Awards at the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is now open Applications close – 31 December 2021 This is an exciting opportunity not to [...]