During 2020, NordPlant has continued to work on the Facility Managers’ Forum initiative. The purpose of this initiative is to stimulate collaboration between the facilities by arranging study visits and other opportunities for the persons responsible for the facilities to…
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These are the posters being presented at the 2nd NordPlant annual meeting. Go to the presentation by joining the breakout room with the corresponding number and name of the presenter. The idea is that the poster presentation should work like…
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We originally intended to hold our second annual meeting in Tromsø, Norway. However, in view of the current situation we have decided to hold an online meeting instead. The theme will still be: “Plant phenotyping and modelling for improved resilience…
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In a new publication, Emina Mulaosmanovic and co-authors describe the use of phenotyping technologies to detect post-harvest damage on leaves. Plants are exposed to factors which cause tissue damage, like environmental stress (abiotic), herbivores (biotic), and mechanical injury from agricultural…
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Dhananjay Kumar in Aakash Chawade’s research group just published a paper entitled Affordable Phenotyping of Winter Wheat under Field and Controlled Conditions for Drought Tolerance in the journal Agronomy. In this paper the authors describe a phenotyping system with low-cost…
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The NordPlant annual report for 2019 has now been submitted to NordForsk for evaluation. While the report was slightly delayed for Covid19-related reasons, we still managed to submit it well within the extended deadline. This post is a summary of…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture is a rapidly developing field in the Nordic countries, with many private actors. As a part of our work to facilitate and increase collaboration between universities and companies in fields related to NordPlant’s activities, we…
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The use of common standards for data handling, metadata generation and data storage is critical for data sharing. Common standards are a necessary prerequisite for the FAIR data principles (that research data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). One…
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During 2019, NordPlant started a facility managers’ forum. The people who manage the various facilities that make up the research infrastructure of NordPlant are absolutely critical for the research being done there. The purpose of the forum is to provide…
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The National Plant Phenotyping Infrastructure (NaPPI) was established during 2016 to overcome the challenges of linking genotypes to their phenotypes in basic and applied plant research. NaPPI is a distributed research infrastructure that provides phenotyping services to the entire Finnish…
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