Root direction points to drought resilience
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wild barley reveals drought tolerant traits that could improve elite cultivars
A team of scientists from the University of Adelaide, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg have identified beneficial alleles from wild barley that can be used for [...]
‘Depressed’ plants
Research in a new paper shows that the interaction of plants and soil fungi – mycorrhiza – does not always benefit the plant. Beneficial soil microbes such as mycorrhizal fungi [...]
International consortia tackle the global challenge to increase wheat yields at the APPF
Two international consortia of scientists from the United States, Great Britain, Mexico and Australia are currently carrying out research projects of global importance at the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility’s (APPF) [...]
Taking the kinks out of curves
In a recent paper, researchers have developed a methodology suitable for analysing the growth curves of a large number of plants from multiple families. The corrected curves accurately account for [...]
Professor Mark Tester to talk plant science in Adelaide
Professor Mark Tester from King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, will present a talk in Adelaide this March: "Into the field and into the genome – [...]
Accurate field canopy temperature measured in seconds
A method for cost-effective, reliable and scalable airborne thermography has been developed, resolving a number of challenges surrounding accurate high-throughput phenotyping of canopy temperature (CT) in the field, such as [...]
What the experts are saying about plant phenotyping and food security
'It takes a village to raise a child' states the age-old saying, but now it will take a village to feed the child as well - if we're smart. “Agriculture’s [...]
Drip-fed success
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is pleased to announce the new DroughtSpotter precision irrigation platform has been fully tested and commissioned, and is now ready to support your plant [...]
PhD student investigates aspects of drought tolerance in barley
Jannatul Ferdous, a PhD student from the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG), used the high-throughput phenotyping platform at The Plant Accelerator® for her project ‘Drought-inducible expression of Hv-miR827 [...]