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 [...]
Cameras can see beyond a plant’s surface for trait ID
Brooke Bruning at the hyperspectral plant imaging station located at the end of a conveyer belt that moves potted wheat plants through The Plant Accelerator®, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility. [...]
Breeders and researchers unite to accelerate variety advances
Wheat variety development has been given an important boost through a new research hub that pairs three universities with three breeding companies to advance and potentially speed-up new trait discoveries. [...]
The hunt for high salt tolerant barley crops gets closer
Soil salinity severely impacts crop growth and yield. Within minutes of exposure to salt, cell expansion, leaf expansion, photosynthesis, transpiration and tillering are reduced. When salts accumulate to toxic concentrations [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
Phenotyping takes to the skies
This year the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) partnered with the Unmanned Research Aircraft Facility (URAF) at the University of Adelaide to provide improved phenotyping capabilities to support Australian plant [...]
Salt tolerant genetic loci in rice exposed
Rice is a staple food for over half of the world’s population. It is also the most salt-sensitive cereal crop, with losses in yield reaching up to 69%. In a [...]