During the first annual meeting a panel discussion was led by NordPlant’s coordinator Erik Alexandersson on the future phenotyping in the Nordic countries. The panel had representatives from Nordic academia working with plant phenotyping and the Nordic plant breeding companies….
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NordPlant will host it’s first annual day 20 November, in Lund, Sweden: “Tech talks for plant phenotyping in the Nordic countries”. On the day before, 19 November, there will be a special meeting for the managers of the respective NordPlant…
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One of the stated goals of NordPlant is to strengthen the collaboration with similar initiatives in Europe. For this purpose, the steering committee and a number of associated researchers visited INRA Montpellier and their extensive facilities for field and greenhouse phenotyping…
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In the last days of April 2019, NordPlant arranged a workshop on phenotyping standards with Célia Michotey and Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon from INRA Versailles. Twenty scientists participated in the workshop, which was held in Biskopshuset, Lund. During the first day, Anne-Françoise…
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On the 24-25 of October the new NordForsk university hub ”NordPlant” was launched in Helsinki, Finland. Around 70 researchers joined the meeting. NordPlant is one out of a total of six Nordic University Hubs funded by NordForsk. NordPlant will address a number of focus…
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NaPPI – the National Plant Phenotyping Infrastructure is on Finland’s roadmap for research infrastructures (FIRI – Finnish Research Infrastructure). The NaPPI facilities are located in two nodes: in the greenhouse complex at the Viikki campus of the University of Helsinki…
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In the beginning of 2018 NordPlant was formed as a Nordic University Hub by five Nordic universities: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, University of Copenhagen, University of Tromsø and Lund University with the help of funding by NordForsk. …
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