A Hub for Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Production in Future Nordic Climates
Two Post Doc position are announced at SLU Alnarp: Postdoctoral position in deep learning for high-throughput plant phenotyping (deadline 15 April) Post doctoral position in image analysis to detect disease and monitor drought in field-grown potato (deadline 28 April)
This is a 1 1/2 days introductory workshop hosted by NordPlant and INRA on datastandards for plant phenotyping led by Célia Michotey (INRA) and Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon (INRA). It will be held 29-30 April in Lund and is open for maximum 20 participants. Employees…
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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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Spectroradiometer measurements generate large amount of data that requires pre-processing prior to analysis. In this publication Alexander Koc (pictured), Tina Henriksson and Aakash Chawade developed an interactive online tool called Specalyzer to assist in pre-processing, outlier detection and estimation of…
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The course is of 5 ECTS and is organised by Kristiina Himanen, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. The course is the second course in the NOVA PhD course series Phenotyping Technologies in Plant-environment Interactions which is scheduled for 2018-2021….
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The NordPlant consortium consists of five Nordic universities: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU Alnarp), University of Helsinki, University of Copenhagen, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway and Lund University. The consortium brings together the complementing expertise and…
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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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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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