Summer is here again, which means that it is is time for the NordPlant newsletter. This edition contains reports from the previous annual meeting and news about the upcoming one, as well as information about NordPlant’s other activities and upcoming…
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Please note: last day for signing up is Sunday 27 November! This year we will be in Lund, Sweden 30 November with the theme “Envirotyping for plant breeding and precision agriculture”. The meeting is the day after the Göte…
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NordPlant is happy to announce 5 travel grants for PhDs and Postdocs working at the 5 NordPlant universities to attend the 7th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium (IPPS 2022), 27-30 September, in Wageningen in the Netherlands. More information on the conference…
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The big upcoming event in the NordPlant network is the NordPlant annual meeting on 25-26 November! In addition, this newsletter contains news about our work with introducing common data standards, upcoming events and more. Contents 1. Final program for…
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Nordic PhD course in plant imaging and phenotyping in Tromsø, Norway 22.-26.11.2021 (3 ECTS)Course topic: Novel imaging methods in plant stress researchPlace: UiT The Arctic University of Norway Time of the course: Lectures and practical part 22.- 24.11.2021, and attending…
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At the Department of Arctic and Marine Biology (AMB), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, a technical position as lab and data engineer for plant phenotyping is available. The position is linked to the research group “Micro-organisms and Plants” and is…
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As part of NordPlant’s Virtual Tours we visited the Biotron at SLU Alnarp on Thursday 27th May 2021.The Biotron is a facility for modern plant research with climatized rooms with high precision and accuracy climates. Here are the in all…
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We are continuing our work with joint data standards for phenotyping within NordPlant. Here you can see Jesper Cairo Westergaard’s and Tatu Polvinen’s latest presentation from the NordPlant annual meeting “Implementing an ontology-driven information system to push forward data sharing…
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This new article associated to NordPlant identifies late blight lesions in field RGB images with the help of deep convolutional neural networks. The article is published in Knowledge-Based Systems: Junfeng Gao, Jesper Cairo Westergaard, Ea Hoegh Riis Sundmark, Merethe Bagge,…
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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 agriculture, these novel techniques are already now making an impact on plant breeding and precision agriculture. Similar…
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