The big upcoming event in the NordPlant network is the NordPlant annual meeting on 25-26 November! In addition, this newsletter contains news about our work with introducing common data standards, upcoming events and more. Contents 1. Final program for…
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Nordic PhD course in plant imaging and phenotyping in Tromsø, Norway 22.-26.11.2021 (3 ECTS)Course topic: Novel imaging methods in plant stress researchPlace: UiT The Arctic University of Norway Time of the course: Lectures and practical part 22.- 24.11.2021, and attending…
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At the Department of Arctic and Marine Biology (AMB), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, a technical position as lab and data engineer for plant phenotyping is available. The position is linked to the research group “Micro-organisms and Plants” and is…
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As part of NordPlant’s Virtual Tours we visited the Biotron at SLU Alnarp on Thursday 27th May 2021.The Biotron is a facility for modern plant research with climatized rooms with high precision and accuracy climates. Here are the in all…
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We are continuing our work with joint data standards for phenotyping within NordPlant. Here you can see Jesper Cairo Westergaard’s and Tatu Polvinen’s latest presentation from the NordPlant annual meeting “Implementing an ontology-driven information system to push forward data sharing…
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This new article associated to NordPlant identifies late blight lesions in field RGB images with the help of deep convolutional neural networks. The article is published in Knowledge-Based Systems: Junfeng Gao, Jesper Cairo Westergaard, Ea Hoegh Riis Sundmark, Merethe Bagge,…
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Remote sensing and multispectral imaging will revolutionize many aspects of human society, not least when it comes to plants and plant-derived products. In agriculture, these novel techniques are already now making an impact on plant breeding and precision agriculture. Similar…
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PhD in plant science or similar? Apply to become the new development leader for the biotron, at SLU Alnarp. Deadline 10 July, more information and application here
Due to the covid-19 outbreak we are unfortunately unable to go ahead with this course as originally planned 22-26 June 2020, and since the main purpose is to provide you with hands-on training in field phenotyping methods it is almost…
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Automated plant phenotyping in precise environments is key to monitor the effects on crops in a changing climate. Therefore, an affordable and high precision automated phenotyping system, the Phenocave, is currently being developed at SLU Alnarp for visible and multispectral…
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