A Hub for Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Production in Future Nordic Climates
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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We originally intended to hold our second annual meeting in Tromsø, Norway. However, in view of the current situation we have decided to hold an online meeting instead. The theme will still be: “Plant phenotyping and modelling for improved resilience…
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In a new publication, Emina Mulaosmanovic and co-authors describe the use of phenotyping technologies to detect post-harvest damage on leaves. Plants are exposed to factors which cause tissue damage, like environmental stress (abiotic), herbivores (biotic), and mechanical injury from agricultural…
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Dhananjay Kumar in Aakash Chawade’s research group just published a paper entitled Affordable Phenotyping of Winter Wheat under Field and Controlled Conditions for Drought Tolerance in the journal Agronomy. In this paper the authors describe a phenotyping system with low-cost…
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PhD in plant science or similar? Apply to become the new development leader for the biotron, at SLU Alnarp. Deadline 10 July, more information and application here
The NordPlant annual report for 2019 has now been submitted to NordForsk for evaluation. While the report was slightly delayed for Covid19-related reasons, we still managed to submit it well within the extended deadline. This post is a summary of…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture is a rapidly developing field in the Nordic countries, with many private actors. As a part of our work to facilitate and increase collaboration between universities and companies in fields related to NordPlant’s activities, we…
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Due to the covid-19 outbreak we are unfortunately unable to go ahead with this course as originally planned 22-26 June 2020, and since the main purpose is to provide you with hands-on training in field phenotyping methods it is almost…
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Automated plant phenotyping in precise environments is key to monitor the effects on crops in a changing climate. Therefore, an affordable and high precision automated phenotyping system, the Phenocave, is currently being developed at SLU Alnarp for visible and multispectral…
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This also means that our seminar “Remote sensing and multispectral imaging for plants and food stuff to meet UN’s Sustainable Development Goals” will likely take place in the afternoon of 24th of November. From SASUF: Given the current situation with…
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