APPF welcomes new Interim Executive Director
The APPF has welcomed a new Interim Executive Director in Richard Dickmann, who has taken over from Dr Susie Robinson. Susie recently resigned from her role as APPF Executive Director [...]
APPF manages Australian Mountain Research data
The newly launched Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF) comprises a network of ten field monitoring sites stretching from southern ACT down to Tasmania. These capture a wide range of environmental [...]
APPF data team to lead national crop research data project
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) will partner with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) to lead a three-year project aimed at standardising access to Australia’s crop research data assets. [...]
APPF supports SABRE alliance
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility is one of the foundation members of the Safeguarding Australia through Biotechnology Response and Engagement (SABRE) Alliance. SABRE was launched by the Department of Defence in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Evaluating super high oleic acid safflower in sodic and saline soils
One of our favourite customers is back at The Plant Accelerator. Dr Rhiannon Schilling has used the APPF’s facilities on many occasions and knows how useful they are. In her [...]
Internship awards a big plus for these postgrads
The next round of Postgraduate Internship Awards at the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) are open Applications close – 31 May 2021 A Postgraduate Internship Award is an exciting opportunity [...]
Postgraduate Internship Award grants round open
The next round of Postgraduate Internship Awards at the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) now open Applications close – 31 May 2021 As the APPF's most recent recipient of a [...]
Impact of above-ground vigour on root architecture in wheat
Congratulations to Pieter Hendriks, winner of the APPF's 2021 Postgraduate Internship Award (PIA). Pieter will work with the APPF's ANU Node to look at the impact of above-ground vigour in [...]
Get your surveys in!
It's time to complete the APPF's survey on our secure, online tool for engagement and collaboration, the APPF Engagement Hub. The survey is about listening to your thoughts on APPF [...]
Research collaboration targets plant-based vaccine development
A new research collaboration aims to develop new methods and tools to non-invasively monitor the growth and performance of plants used in the production of Virus-Like Particles (VLPs). In doing [...]
OzBarley – from genome to phenome and back
A cross-NCRIS collaboration between the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) and Bioplatforms Australia (BPA) has been successful in securing investment worth $400k over two years from the Australian Research Data [...]
Postgraduate Internship grants at the APPF are open now!!
The next round of Postgraduate Internship Awards at the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) are now open Applications close – 15 April 2020 (Round 1) and 30 November 2020 (Round [...]
Exciting new technology for CT scanning of wheat grains for stress tolerance to arrive at APPF in late 2020
Scientists have developed a computed tomography (CT) scanning method for screening large samples of wheat for drought and heat tolerance. They believe the new system will allow more accurate and [...]
Pilot Project Invitation – FieldExplorer Field Phenotyping Platform
An Invitation to Australian Plant Scientists The APPF invites expressions of interest from plant scientists wishing to undertake pilot projects using the new field phenotyping system during the 2020 growing [...]