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 [...]
Image-based phenomics examines pasture mixtures – in one pot
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 [...]
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 [...]
Role for videogame design in agriculture and regeneration
Traditional videogame design tools may well have potential for use in agriculture and landscape simulation to better plan and predict crop yields, while promoting regenerative agriculture. A collaboration between the APPF’s [...]
Jungle Fever – measuring chlorophyll in the rainforests of Borneo
A chlorophyll meter courtesy of APPF found its way to Sabah in Malaysian Borneo where Hannah Carle, a PhD student at ANU, used it to measure chlorophyll content - among [...]
4th Integrated Plant and Algal Phenomics Meeting (IPAP) | Brno, Czech Republic
We are very proud to invite you to the 4th INTEGRATED PLANT AND ALGAL PHENOMICS MEETING (IPAP), to be held this year in the beautiful and historic city of Brno [...]
Plant Biology Europe (PBE) 2020 | Turin, Italy
Plant biology is a blooming scientific area where novel developments continuously arise, opening new avenues of research and empowering innovation for agriculture and for food and non-food applications. PBE2020 focuses [...]
International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Agri-Environmental Systems (IS-CRAES 2020) | Dublin, Ireland
It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Agri-Environmental Systems (IS-CRAES) organized by the Climate-Resilient Agri-Environmental Systems ( CRAES) group in [...]
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 [...]
ESA 2019 | Launceston, Australia
The Econological Society of Austalia's Annual Conference | ESA 2019 Ecology: science for practical solutions ‘Ecology is the science of interactions among all forms of life and the abiotic [...]
5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture 2019 | Bali, Indonesia
Transforming food systems under a changing climate Since the term climate-smart agriculture (CSA) was coined in 2010, the biannual global science conferences on CSA have emerged as the key global [...]
Why fungi isn’t always the good guy
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) partnerships are mutualisms between an estimated two-thirds of plants species and microscopic fungi that are ubiquitous in soils. Since the 1950s there have been many studies into [...]
1st International Wheat Congress | Saskatchewan, Canada
Be part of the 1st International Wheat Congress that will be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada from July 21st to July 26th, 2019. Saskatoon is the region’s cultural and [...]
Could you be our next Technology and Development Leader in plant phenomics? Apply now!
The Plant Accelerator® has new state-of-the-art equipment arriving soon to enable innovative plant phenomics studies in controlled environments and the field. We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join [...]
The APPF appoints new Executive Director, Dr Susie Robinson
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) has appointed Dr Susie Robinson as Executive Director to drive future success. Dr Robinson brings a depth of experience across research, higher education and [...]
Plant phenotyping with Uncle Sam – Brooke Bruning’s trip to the USA
APPF and University of Adelaide PhD student, Brooke Bruning, shares experiences from her recent trip to Phenome 2019 and Purdue University, USA. Phenome Conference 2019 | 6 - 9 February [...]
Boosting performance of Australia’s world-class research facilities
In an announcement today, the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) will receive an additional $1 million in funding, ensuring our world-class facility remains at the cutting edge of plant science [...]
ANZ Smart Farms and Agtech Forum | Sydney, Australia
The ANZ Smart Farms and Agtech Forum: Future of Farming with Precision Agriculture, Big Data and Robotics provides an invaluable platform for agriculture industry experts to address Smart Farming challenges, [...]
Novel salt-tolerant genetic loci detected in glasshouse show increased wheat grain yield in the Australian environment
A team of scientists, including the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility's Dr Bettina Berger, have identified a number of novel beneficial genetic loci (so-called quantitative trait loci or QTL) that associated [...]