A Hub for Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Production in Future Nordic Climates
NordPlant was very pleased to be represented at the 7th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium, 27-30 September 2022 in Wageningen. We participated both in a poster session as well as a flash poster presentation. The Nordic countries were well represented at…
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As part of the SASUF on remote sensing MSc student Kim Mannix and researcher Paul Williams from Stellenbosch university visited Alnarp 29 June to 1 July. Apart from visiting the facilities at SLU Alnarp, the small delegation took the chance…
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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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On 14 March 2022 at 12.00-12.30 CET we did a virtual tour of the Finnish National Plant Phenotyping Infrastructure (NaPPI) facility in Helsinki. Watch the video here NaPPI was established during 2016 and is a distributed research infrastructure that provides phenotyping…
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The changing climate requires the development of faster breeding methods. This course is part of a series that aims to introduce the emerging research fields of high throughput plant phenotyping and omics technologies (including bioinformatics). The focus of the course…
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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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Phenotyping facility coordinators Dr Kristiina Himanen and Prof. Thomas Roitsch joined a network of European phenomics facilities at INRAE, UCPH, UH and WUR to obtain access to the EGI-ACE as a use case. The project offers access to infrastructure and…
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One of the milestones set out in the NordPlant application was the publication of 18 joint scientific articles in the 2018-2023 time period. We are happy to announce that we have already achieved this by a considerable margin! Currently, the…
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This year’s NordPlant annual meeting started with a keynote lecture from Magnus Nordborg (Gregor Mendel Institute). His research has revolved around plant ecotypes for a long time. In his talk he presented data from epigenetic studies showing that it is…
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