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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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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This also means that our seminar “Remote sensing and multispectral imaging for plants and food stuff to meet UN’s Sustainable Development Goals” will likely take place in the afternoon of 24th of November. From SASUF: Given the current situation with…
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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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Changing climate and degrading agricultural land are global challenges for agriculture and forest production. In the NordPlant project, five Nordic universities University of Copenhagen, Helsinki University, University of Tromsø , Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences join forces…
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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 November 2019 SASUF (Sweden-South Africa Universityn Forum) granted a network project around various aspects of plants and…
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Junfeng Gao will be a new post doc in our NordPlant project. He most recently comes from Ghent University where he used deep machine learning for weed detection in field conditions and also joint developed a vision-based site-specific spraying prototype with Wageningen University& Research. Together with…
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