by Lieke Van Der Hulst | 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 Lieke Van Der Hulst | 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 Lieke Van Der Hulst | 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 Lieke Van Der Hulst | 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 Admin | 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 Admin | 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...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Aug 13, 2019 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, Internships, News, Research stories, Students, University of Adelaide
Republished from the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility blog. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) partnerships are mutualisms between an estimated two-thirds of plants species and microscopic fungi that are ubiquitous in soils. Since the 1950s there have been many studies...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Jul 11, 2019 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, TERN, University of Adelaide
Research for a range of industrial sectors including advanced manufacturing, defence, resources, biomedical and agriculture has received a major boost with the announcement of new funding for research infrastructure based at the University of Adelaide, including the...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 27, 2019 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, Research stories, Students, University of Adelaide
Republished from the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility blog. A study featuring research by Adelaide-Nottingham PhD student Olivia Cousins, has found cycling water availability from wet to dry reduced plant growth in wheat more than maintaining a constant level of...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | May 14, 2019 | Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, CSIRO, Historic Precinct, News, Partners, Students, Women of Waite, WRI
The Waite Research Institute hosted this year’s Peter Waite Day in the Urrbrae House gardens on Friday May 10. Held each year on the Friday closest to Peter Waite’s Birthday (May 9), the afternoon is an opportunity for people from across the campus...
