A Hub for Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Production in Future Nordic Climates
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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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 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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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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