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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Aakash Chawade (of NordPlant and SLU) will lead a new project, funded by SLU Grogrund. The aim is to develop innovative and robust automated plant phenotyping methods for evaluation of economically important agronomic traits of crops important to Sweden’s agriculture….
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In a recent bibliometric review that maps plant phenotyping publications, Denmark is the EU country with the highest number of phenotyping publications per inhabitant (together with Luxembourg). The authors map plant phenotyping publications worldwide and conclude that plant phenotyping requires…
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Priyanka Trivedi, an I4 Future doctoral candidate (UO, Finland and UiT, Tromso) is studying the effect of environmental factors on the composition and biosynthesis of cuticular wax in bilberry (WAX- project funded by Interreg Nord). She is currently working in…
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High-throughput field phenotyping has garnered major attention in recent years leading to the development of several new protocols for recording various plant traits of interest. Phenotyping of plants for breeding and for precision agriculture have different requirements due to different…
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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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On March 30, 2019, NordPlant submitted the first annual progress report to NordForsk. This is an abbreviated version of the report. The full version can be found here. During the first half of 2018, NordPlant received the first funding, formed…
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The NordPlant newsletter for December 2018 has now been sent to all subscribers. It includes information about the kickoff meeting and the focus groups formed there as well as upcoming courses and events. Each newsletter will also highlight a facility…
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NordPlant has decided to establish a number of focus groups to identify future challenges associated with Nordic climate change and to assist with technological developments around plant phenomics and climate research. At the NordPlant Kickoff in Helsinki 24-25 October 2018, the…
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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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