Life is better with a “fun-gi”
Fungi colonise the roots of all cereal crops in a mutually beneficial association where the plant benefits from greater stress tolerance through improved water and mineral intake in exchange for [...]
PhD student investigates aspects of drought tolerance in barley
Jannatul Ferdous, a PhD student from the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG), used the high-throughput phenotyping platform at The Plant Accelerator® for her project ‘Drought-inducible expression of Hv-miR827 [...]
Drought effects on soil bugs
Olivia Cousins is a PhD student jointly supervised by Professor Sacha Mooney at the University of Nottingham and Dr Tim Cavagnaro at the University of Adelaide. As part of her [...]
Go for a ride on The Plant Accelerator’s conveyor system
Tim Brown from the APPF’s ANU node brought along his 360 degree camera equipment to take these fantastic videos of the plant imaging system in Adelaide, proving that science can [...]
Internships – Applications Open
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility is enthusiastic about highly motivated and research focussed postgraduate students joining its team as interns. In order to attract the very best students, we provide [...]
2015 APPF Postgraduate Internship Award Winners
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility wishes to congratulate PhD students Rohan Riley (Western Sydney University) and Sijesh Natarajan (Sugar Research Australia/University of Queensland) on receiving APPF Postgraduate Internship Awards! The [...]
Postgraduate Student Internship Grants
The Plant Accelerator is a cutting edge plant phenotyping facility located at the University of Adelaide’s Waite Campus. As a node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, The Plant Accelerator [...]
HRPPC hosts student from Pakistan to map salt tolerance in wheat
Zeeshan Khan, a visiting PhD student from Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan, is currently working with the salt tolerance research group led by Dr Richard James in CSIRO’s Agriculture Flagship. [...]
Saudi Arabian Students joins Plant Accelerator Team to Investigate Salinity Tolerance in Rice
Nadia Al-Tamimi is a PhD student from Saudi Arabia in Professor Mark Tester’s lab at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. She is currently a visitor at The Plant [...]
Utilization of a high-throughput shoot imaging system to examine the dynamic phenotypic responses of a C4 cereal crop plant to nitrogen and water deficiency over time
Authors: E.H. Neilson1,2, A.M. Edwards1,C.K. Blomstedt1, B. Berger3, B. Lindberg Møller2,4 and R.M. Gleadow1 Author Affiliations 1School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia 2Plant Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of [...]
US Researchers return to Australian NCRIS Facility to phenotype over 5000 plants
Malachy Campbell is a PhD student with A/Professor Harkamal Walia at the University of Nebraska, studying aspects of salinity tolerance in a diversity panel of about 400 rice accessions. As [...]
Moving indoors – Internship at The Plant Accelerator
Dominik Nieberg, a Master student in mechatronic engineering and research assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück (UAS OS), is currently undertaking a two-month internship at The Plant Accelerator [...]
Aris Hairmansis receives Award for Excellence – Learning
Dr Aris Hairmansis has been a PhD student at the University of Adelaide under the Australia Awards Scheme, jointly supervised by Dr Stuart Roy (ACPFG), Dr Bettina Berger (APPF) and [...]
Image-based phenotyping for non-destructive screening of different salinity tolerance traits in rice
Soil salinity is an abiotic stress wide spread in rice producing areas, limiting both plant growth and yield. The development of salt-tolerant rice requires efficient and high-throughput screening techniques to [...]
From start to finish – Visiting PhD student learns about high-throughput phenotyping
Stephanie Saade is a PhD student in the research group of Professor Mark Tester at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Her PhD project [...]
ComBio2014 – APPF Satellite Workshop
The APPF's High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre in Canberra will host a breakfast tour of its facilities (ANU and CSIRO) and discussion of current and future capacities. Date: Wednesday, 1 [...]
High-Throughput Phenotyping to Detect Drought Tolerance QTL in Wild Barley Introgression Lines
Drought is one of the most severe stresses, endangering crop yields worldwide. In order to select drought tolerant genotypes, access to exotic germplasm and efficient phenotyping protocols are needed. In [...]
Public Community visits Plant Accelerator
Well over one hundred members of the public visited the APPF as The Plant Accelerator opened its doors on Sunday, 4 May 2014 as participant of Open House Adelaide. Now [...]
Battle of the Plants – Register Now
From 3 June 2014 students from science classes around Australia will be competing against the APPF scientists at the High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre (HRPPC) in an attempt to outgrow [...]