by Jared Vandersluys | Oct 22, 2020 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, Research stories, 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 in Adelaide. This article was originally published on the APPF...
by Admin | Oct 22, 2020 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, Internships, News, Students, Women of Waite
Australian Plant Phenomics Facility Internship The next round of Postgraduate Internship Awards at the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) are now open. Applications close 30 November 2020. This is an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic,...
by Jared Vandersluys | Sep 21, 2020 | ARDC, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, CSIRO, Home page slider, News, Research stories, SARDI, University of Adelaide, WRI
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 Commons (ARDC) for a high-impact Cross-NCRIS...
by Jared Vandersluys | Sep 10, 2020 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, Research stories, University of Adelaide, WheatHub
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 almost 70 per cent of the wheat belt is affected by salinity to some degree,...
by Jared Vandersluys | Aug 17, 2020 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, Research stories, University of Adelaide
A new study by research fellow Dr Huajian Liu at APPF’s The Plant Accelerator, at the Waite campus, has unearthed the optimal wavelength ranges, band centres and bandwidths for Hyperspectral sensors to determine the nitrogen content in Wheat. Healthy plants generally...
by Keryn | Jun 30, 2020 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, University of Adelaide
The FieldExplorer, a new ground-based field phenotyping platform, has arrived at The Plant Accelerator, the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility’s (APPF) node at the University of Adelaide’s Waite Campus, bringing new capability to accurately measure the performance of...
by Keryn | Jun 3, 2020 | ARDC, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, Research stories
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is pleased to be working alongside other research infrastructure providers and research organisations to develop the Australian Scalable Drone Cloud (ASDC), supported by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)...
by Keryn | Mar 4, 2020 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, SARDI, University of Adelaide
This year SADGA set the bar high with the 2020 Durum Tours and Forum held at The Waite Campus with the support of San Remo and the University of Adelaide. Over 90 people, including a large percentage of growers, registered to tour the San Remo Mill and Pasta Factory,...
by Keryn | Feb 27, 2020 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, University of Adelaide
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 season in South Australia. Republished from the Australian...
by Keryn | Feb 27, 2020 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, Research stories, University of Adelaide, WheatHub
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 much more rapid analysis of wheat heads, speeding up the process of...