Research trip expands CT Scanning capabilities
The team at The Plant Accelerator® is working to offer researchers greater insights from X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) scanning of plants – and particularly in vivo roots. Resident CT scanning [...]
The team at The Plant Accelerator® is working to offer researchers greater insights from X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) scanning of plants – and particularly in vivo roots. Resident CT scanning [...]
Researchers working at The Plant Phenomics Group, the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility’s node at Australian National University in Canberra, have developed a system for automatically calculating leaf area for plant [...]
The Australian Plant Phenomics facility team is pleased to welcome visiting scientist Sudhir Kumar, Ph.D, from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. Dr Kumar, [...]
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility has announced the recipients of its November 2022 Postgraduate Internship Awards. Rucha Patil from the School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, and Isobella Revell from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is very pleased to be a supporter of the newly announced Training Centre for Accelerated Future Crop Development. Announced by the Federal Minister for [...]
PIA recipients and students at Western Sydney University's Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Natascha Weinberger and Ximena Cibils-Stewart both stayed in Adelaide while they completed their experiments using AM fungi [...]
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 [...]
APPF's Adelaide node is working with the team of Mark Tester, Professor of Plant Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudia Arabia, to study mechanisms [...]
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 [...]
One week to go - please fill in the survey on our new Engagement Hub As we begin the process of providing input into the next National Research Infrastructure Roadmap [...]
Be part of our APPF stakeholder engagement as we begin the process of providing input into the development of the next National Research Infrastructure Roadmap, and planning for the future [...]
The next round of Postgraduate Internship Awards at the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is now open Applications close – 30 November 2020 An exciting opportunity for enthusiastic, highly motivated [...]