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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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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