Assessing how wheat responds to climate change
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 [...]
APPN mentors two TechLauncher teams
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 [...]
APPN helps young researchers prepare for climate change
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 [...]
Change from APPF to APPN reflects our new national network
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 [...]
National UAV phenotyping capability takes off
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 [...]
Infrared imaging heats up
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) [...]
Evaluating biochar made from wastewater biosolids
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 [...]
APPF manages Australian Mountain Research data
The newly launched Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF) comprises a network of ten field monitoring sites stretching from southern ACT down to Tasmania. These capture a wide range of environmental [...]
New image analyser software helps calculate leaf area
Researchers working at The Plant Phenomics Group, the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility’s node at Australian National University in Canberra, have developed a system for automatically calculating leaf area for plant [...]
Board Update: 2022 – The Year in Review
The approaching end of 2022 offers us a chance to reflect on our achievements, our people and our business. As Chair of the APPF Board, I am incredibly proud of [...]
APPF staff lead the way to green gold for ANU
APPF staff at our ANU Canberra node have earned a Gold award for sustainability in the 2022 Green Impact program. Led by Dr Frederike Stock, a team calling themselves the [...]
Recognising our infrastructure specialists
At the APPF, our Infrastructure Specialists are vital to our capabilities and our capacity to deliver cutting-edge phenomics for clients and partners. With that in mind, APPF Executive Director Dr [...]
APPF Team visits Medicago facilities in Quebec
In August 2022, representatives from the ANU Canberra node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility visited the Quebec City headquarters of Medicago R&D Inc. The Canadian biopharmaceutical company is collaborating [...]
APPF researchers support bushfire recovery
Researchers at the Australian National University Plant Phenomics Facility, a Canberra-based Node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, have used sophisticated phenotyping technology to identify Eucalyptus seedlings that will provide [...]
Plant Biology meets Computer Vision – reimagining plant phenotyping
Last month, Canadian biopharmaceutical company Medicago R&D Inc., the APPF and the Centre for Entrepreneurial Agri-Technology (CEAT) at ANU successfully completed the first phase of a five-year research collaboration to [...]
New Training Centre for Accelerated Future Crop Development
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is very pleased to be a supporter of the newly announced Training Centre for Accelerated Future Crop Development. Announced by the Federal Minister for [...]
Research collaboration targets plant-based vaccine development
A new research collaboration aims to develop new methods and tools to non-invasively monitor the growth and performance of plants used in the production of Virus-Like Particles (VLPs). In doing [...]
Role for videogame design in agriculture and regeneration
Traditional videogame design tools may well have potential for use in agriculture and landscape simulation to better plan and predict crop yields, while promoting regenerative agriculture. A collaboration between the APPF’s [...]
Jungle Fever – measuring chlorophyll in the rainforests of Borneo
A chlorophyll meter courtesy of APPF found its way to Sabah in Malaysian Borneo where Hannah Carle, a PhD student at ANU, used it to measure chlorophyll content - among [...]
Australian wheat shows resistance to devastating disease
Exciting research is carried out every day by users of the APPF’s technology and facilities. Here we share another inspirational story…. Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have shown [...]