Spying on trees
Dr Tim Brown from the APPF’s team at the Australian National University is helping researchers from the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) to use surveillance camera networks and drone data [...]
Go for a ride on The Plant Accelerator’s conveyor system
Tim Brown from the APPF’s ANU node brought along his 360 degree camera equipment to take these fantastic videos of the plant imaging system in Adelaide, proving that science can [...]
APPF supports start-up company
The team of The Plant Accelerator (APPF) has worked with the Coritsu Group to further develop image visualisation software that meets the needs of the plant phenomics community. Coritsu CEO [...]
Testing Drought Tolerance of Rice
Rice is the most important crop for global food security and improving its tolerance to abiotic stresses, such as drought, is becoming increasingly important with climate change. A collaborative project, [...]
Can specialized metabolites improve drought tolerance in crops?
Lucia Montini, an Italian PhD student from the University of Copenhagen, travelled to Adelaide to work with the team of The Plant Accelerator to study the effects of environmental stress [...]
New DroughtSpotter Project: Impact of dhurrin on drought tolerance in sorghum
Monash University researchers, led by Associate Professor Ros Gleadow, are currently carrying out an experiment at The Plant Accelerator in Adelaide investigating the impacts of dhurrin (a chemical that is [...]
PhD Student from University of Copenhagen wins APPF Travel Grant
Congratulations to Lucia Montini on being awarded an APPF Travel Grant. As part of an international collaboration involving researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Monash University, Lucia will visit [...]
Team Award for Exceptional Performance
The outstanding efforts of the Plant Accelerator team were acknowledged at the Faculty of Sciences End of Year Celebrations at the University of Adelaide on 3 December 2015. In recognition [...]
Introducing Zegami
Today, we are delighted to introduce our exciting new web application Zegami, which can be found at zegami.plantphenomics.org.au or by following the link on the APPF website. Zegami allows users [...]
Plant Phenomics: Pixels to Traits – Symposium
Dr Xavier Sirault from the APPF's High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre at CSIRO in Canberra is a featured speaker at the Center for Plant Science Innovation 2015 Symposium at the [...]
Open House at The Plant Accelerator
As part of the Festival of Architecture and Design 2015, The Plant Accelerator will be opening its doors for the general public on Sunday, 11 October 2015 for guided tours [...]
Phenomics Infrastructure for Excellence in Plant Science (PIEPS)
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility is committed to facilitating cutting edge research in plant phenomics. We have introduced the Phenomics Infrastructure for Excellence in Plant Science scheme to provide improved [...]
Pilot Project Invitation – New DroughtSpotter Platform
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility invites expressions of interest from Australian plant scientists wishing to undertake pilot projects using the new DroughtSpotter system in Adelaide. DroughtSpotter is a gravimetric platform [...]
APPF Travel Grants
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility is committed to providing easy access to state-of-the-art automated phenotyping capabilities in controlled environments and in the field. We have established a travel fund ($50,000 [...]
Vacancy: Postdoctoral Fellow/ Research Fellow
Job no: 505386 Work type: Fixed Term Location: Canberra / ACT Classification: Academic Level A or Academic Level B Salary package: Level A $66,318 - $84,122; Level B $91,541 - $104,254 plus [...]
Integrating image-based phenomics and association analysis to dissect the genetic architecture of temporal salinity responses in rice
Authors Campbell MT1, Knecht AC2, Berger B3, Brien CJ4, Wang D5, Walia H6 Author Affiliations 1University of Nebraska CITY: Lincoln STATE: Nebraska United States Of America [US] 2University of Nebraska [...]
Frontiers in Plant Phenomics Workshop
Staff from The Plant Accelerator participated in the Frontiers in Plant Phenomics Workshop at North Carolina State University on 1-3 June 2015. The workshop was organised by the University of [...]
Postgraduate Student Internship Grants
The Plant Accelerator is a cutting edge plant phenotyping facility located at the University of Adelaide’s Waite Campus. As a node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, The Plant Accelerator [...]
A model-based approach to recovering the structure of a plant from images
An international collaborative project involving research groups from the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies (ACVT) led by Anton van den Hengel, BayerCrop Science in Belgium, The Plant Accelerator at the [...]
HRPPC hosts student from Pakistan to map salt tolerance in wheat
Zeeshan Khan, a visiting PhD student from Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan, is currently working with the salt tolerance research group led by Dr Richard James in CSIRO’s Agriculture Flagship. [...]