A Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) headquartered at the University of Adelaide and the European Infrastructure for Plant Phenotyping (EMPHASIS) coordinated at Forschungszentrum Jülich [...]
APPF controlled environment growth chambers at The Plant Accelerator® have proved invaluable to a South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) project that bred new pasture medic cultivars at least [...]
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is inviting applications for its current round of Postgraduate Internship Awards. Due to APPF staff schedules, the usual May 31 deadline for applications has [...]
The APPF has welcomed a new Interim Executive Director in Richard Dickmann, who has taken over from Dr Susie Robinson. Susie recently resigned from her role as APPF Executive Director [...]
In early November 2022, two students from the University of Western Australia (UWA) visited The Plant Accelerator® (TPA) to expand their chickpea fertility research. Montana Walsh Baddeley and Alistair Hockey [...]
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 [...]
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility is one of the foundation members of the Safeguarding Australia through Biotechnology Response and Engagement (SABRE) Alliance. SABRE was launched by the Department of Defence in [...]
Traditional PhD training in crop science is getting an overhaul with the establishment of the new ARC Training Centre for Future Crops Development. The Centre will train a new generation [...]
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is welcoming applications for its Postgraduate Student Internship Awards. The Awards, which cover up to $10,000 worth of access to APPF phenomics infrastructure plus [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Exciting research is carried out every day by users of the APPF's technology and facilities. Here we share another inspirational story.... The potential to significantly increase wheat yields has been [...]
Effective field-based high-throughput phenotyping is key for future breeding advances. Reasons to attend this course Learn about different platforms, sensors and carriers used for plant phenotyping. Determine suitable experimental designs [...]
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 [...]
The 30th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2019), which will be held on June 16-21, 2019 in Wuhan, China. ICAR is a yearly conference rotating between North America, Asia-Pacific and [...]
