Infrared imaging heats up
Are plants cool? Not really… In fact, developing automated, AI-enabled infrared imaging systems for plant phenomics could help researchers detect early signs of plant stress. So Saswat Panda (Research Officer) [...]
Indian agricultural research shares APPF expertise
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, [...]
New traits identified for salt tolerant wheat
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 [...]
Multi-disciplinary approaches to understand plant stress tolerance mechanisms | Les Diablerets, Switzerland
The Gordon Research Seminar on Salt and Water Stress in Plants is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education [...]
Interdrought 2020 | Mexico City, Mexico
Droughts affect crop production across the world. A central challenge for researchers and policymakers is to devise technologies that lend greater resilience to agricultural production under this particular environmental [...]
South Australian research infrastructure receives a funding boost
The South Australian Government has announced $6.77 million of funding to support four of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) facilities based at the University of Adelaide - including [...]
Variable water cycles have a greater impact on wheat growth and soil nitrogen response than constant watering
A study featuring research by Adelaide-Nottingham PhD student Olivia Cousins, has found cycling water availability from wet to dry reduced plant growth in wheat more than maintaining a constant [...]
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 [...]
Pilot projects wanted for first-of-its-kind combined drought/heat phenotyping platform
A call for pilot projects using a first-of-its-kind research capability at the APPF to accelerate combined stress research discovery Capability offers unprecedented ability to apply drought and heat stress [...]
Full program for IPPS 2018 in October announced!
The 5th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium, titled ‘From plant, to data, to impact’, will be held in Adelaide, South Australia from 2-5 October 2018. The interesting and diverse program [...]
On the path of most resistance – hunting combined stress tolerant crops
Arun Shanker and Robert Coe at the HRPPC, the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility's CSIRO hosted node An international collaboration tackling a shared challenge – the search for combined [...]
Optics in agriculture
Few industries define human civilisation as strongly as agriculture. And, as the world's population continues to grow, few technologies are as poised to improve the cultivation of food, fiber and [...]
The hunt for combined drought and heat tolerant crops
New review paper discusses what is known, and where research is turning next, in the pursuit of physiological traits for combined stress tolerance in crops Unique new combined drought/heat/humidity/light research [...]
Bumper funding to enhance national infrastructure and grains research
Dean of the Waite Mike Keller, GRDC Managing Director Steve Jefferies, and GRDC Chairman John Woods in a greenhouse with DroughtSpotter system at the APPF’s Adelaide node. National [...]
Decadal Plan for Australian Agricultural Sciences 2017-2026 released
Grow. Make. Prosper. The Decadal Plan for Australian Agricultural Sciences was published in June 2017 and presents the strategic vision for Australian Agricultural Sciences in the next decade. The plan [...]
This is your chance! An invaluable opportunity to access phenotyping capabilities to further your plant science research
Do you have an exceptional plant science research project destined to deliver high impact outcomes for Australian agriculture? Do you need access to plant phenotyping capabilities? The Phenomics Infrastructure for [...]
Supporting the agricultural industry through R&D to deliver successful new products to market
Developing and bringing new agricultural products to market can be costly and time consuming for industry. Nufarm Limited recently sought the technology and expertise of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility [...]
A step closer to salt tolerant chickpea crops
A recent study has collected phenotypic data of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) which can now be linked with the genotypic data of these lines. This will enable genome-wide association mapping [...]
An exciting offer of help for significant plant science research projects
Do you have an exceptional plant science research project destined to deliver high impact outcomes for Australian agriculture? Do you need access to plant phenotyping capabilities? The Phenomics Infrastructure for [...]
Drought knows no borders
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) was delighted to welcome His Excellency Mr Mohamed Khairat, Ambassador of The Arab Republic of Egypt, to its Adelaide node recently. Egyptians share our [...]