by Keryn | Jun 30, 2020 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, Home page slider, 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 Admin | Mar 16, 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 31 March 2020 (Round 1) and 30 November 2020 (Round 2). This is an...
by Keryn | Mar 5, 2020 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, Careers, News, positions vacant, University of Adelaide
Grant-Funded Researcher (B) – School of Agriculture, Food and Wine Join The Plant Accelerator® at The University of Adelaide’s Waite Campus and support the national Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) APPF is a national research facility established in...
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...
by Keryn | Feb 24, 2020 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, SARDI, University of Adelaide
The GRDC Grains Research Update was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre on 11-12 February, with Waite researchers featuring heavily in the program. Both SARDI and University of Adelaide speakers highlighted recent progress in their GRDC-funded work on pest/insect,...
by Robbi Davidson | Oct 17, 2019 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, Research stories, University of Adelaide, Women of Waite
Republished from the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility blog. Using light as a non-destructive analytical tool – both in the paddock to monitor crops and in the laboratory for trait discovery work – is a rapidly advancing area of technology development. At the...
by Robbi Davidson | Sep 12, 2019 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, Research stories
Republished from the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility blog. Dr Huajian Liu, from the APPF’s Adelaide node, has developed a one-class support vector machine classifier combined with a pre-processing method named ‘hyper-hue’ to segment green plant pixels in...
