Evaluating biochar made from wastewater biosolids
Australian National University (ANU) post-doctoral Research Fellow Dr Wolfram Buss has been phenotyping Pinus radiata tree seedlings with APPF staff at our ANU node in recent weeks, as part of [...]
Australian National University (ANU) post-doctoral Research Fellow Dr Wolfram Buss has been phenotyping Pinus radiata tree seedlings with APPF staff at our ANU node in recent weeks, as part of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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®, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The APPF’s FieldExplorer completed imaging in 16 field trials in its first year of operation and included clients from universities, government research organisations and breeding companies. This ground-based phenotyping platform [...]
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 [...]
In Precision Agriculture real-time action and decisions based on accurate information of time and location a pest occurs is essential. Using computer vision and machine learning technologies Huajian Liu, Research [...]
An in-depth study of how mixed pastures respond to nutrient limitation was undertaken by Dr Kirsten Ball using the APPF’s high throughput, image-based phenotyping (HTP) facility at The Plant Accelerator [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wheat plays a major role in food security across the globe and demand is ever increasing. However, wheat is only moderately tolerant to salinity, a major constraint in Australia where [...]
A study by Research Fellow Dr Huajian Liu at APPF's The Plant Accelerator has highlighted the challenges and considerations when using different hyperspec sensors for nitrogen prediction. The accurate and [...]