The Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Kerry Bormann as Chief Operating Officer, marking a significant moment in the organisation’s continued expansion and commitment [...]
PhD student Zixiong Zhuang and Honours student Amy McEachern, who are both based at the APPN ANU node, are conducting projects which focus on the biological responses of pre-breeding Australian [...]
The latest recipients of APPN Postgraduate Internship Awards will each spend time at APPN facilities working alongside our experts and using our phenotyping infrastructure to advance their studies. La Trobe [...]
APPN ANU Node staff, Ming-Dao Chia, Tao Hu and Saswat Panda, recently celebrated the success of their two TechLauncher student teams who successfully presented their projects at the ANU Computing [...]
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 [...]
Are plants cool? Not really… In fact, developing automated, AI-enabled infrared imaging systems for plant phenomics could help researchers detect early signs of plant stress. So Saswat Panda (Research Officer) [...]
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 [...]
The APPF Central Office data team, in cooperation with the Adelaide and Canberra nodes, recently completed its contribution to the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Data Retention Program. The goal [...]
A Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) headquartered at the University of Adelaide and the European Infrastructure for Plant Phenotyping (EMPHASIS) coordinated at Forschungszentrum Jülich [...]
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 [...]
Australian National University (ANU) post-doctoral Research Fellow Dr Wolfram Buss has been phenotyping Pinus radiata tree seedlings with APPF staff at our ANU node in recent weeks, as part of [...]
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 [...]
APPF controlled environment growth chambers at The Plant Accelerator® have proved invaluable to a South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) project that bred new pasture medic cultivars at least [...]
Phosphorus, or simply ‘P’, is an essential nutrient for food crops and plays a critical role in photosynthesis, root growth, stem strength, flowering and grain fill. However, phosphorus content is [...]
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is inviting applications for its current round of Postgraduate Internship Awards. Due to APPF staff schedules, the usual May 31 deadline for applications has [...]
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 [...]
The APPF has welcomed a new Interim Executive Director in Richard Dickmann, who has taken over from Dr Susie Robinson. Susie recently resigned from her role as APPF Executive Director [...]
