The team at the APPN’s Canberra node, hosted by Australian National University, have been supporting two ANU research students through our Postgraduate Internship Awards (PIA) program, as they each investigate [...]
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) has been officially renamed the Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN) as of 4 June 2024. This change reflects our major expansion from two nodes [...]
Above (left to right): Ryan Riley and Evan Flatt from GRYFN with Carla Gho and Daniel Smith from the APPF University of Queensland node fit the GRYFN ‘Gobi’ sensor package [...]
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility’s national expansion took another major step forward recently. Representatives from our expanded network of nine Nodes, Central Office and Central Data Team gathered at the [...]
Barley researchers are being invited to submit expressions of interest for access to field trials of the OzBarley elite panel in 2024. The GRDC and the OzBarley project, which is [...]
Research linked to the hyperspectral scanning capabilities of The Plant Accelerator®, Adelaide node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF), has established the viability of using non-destructive scanning to determine [...]
Our recent attendance at HortConnect 2023, at the Adelaide Convention Centre, left us inspired about the potential of phenotyping in horticultural crops. The annual event, hosted by AUSVEG and the [...]
The team at The Plant Accelerator® is working to offer researchers greater insights from X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) scanning of plants – and particularly in vivo roots. Resident CT scanning [...]
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 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, [...]
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 approaching end of 2022 offers us a chance to reflect on our achievements, our people and our business. As Chair of the APPF Board, I am incredibly proud of [...]
At the APPF, our Infrastructure Specialists are vital to our capabilities and our capacity to deliver cutting-edge phenomics for clients and partners. With that in mind, APPF Executive Director Dr [...]
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is proud to announce we are a supporting partner for the newly announced Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plants For Space [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
