The EPPN2020 provides researchers from academia and industry with access to 31 phenotyping facilities in Europe. The facilities can be used for experiments with either scientific or technological objectives. EPPN2020 has launched the fifth call for access, open to European groups and (to a limited extent) to groups from emerging countries or international research centers.

The modelling pilot Quantitative Plant is now operational. The online portal offers image analysis software tools, image data sets and plant models. 

The International Plant Phenotyping Network is inviting contributions for a Plant Phenomics special issue on "Phenotyping for Sustainable Agriculture”. 

During a workshop at Botanikertagung in Rostock, Germany on 17 September 2019, most recent developments in plant phenotyping in Germany and Europe were presented.

Launching the call for proposals for the ESFRI Roadmap 2021, Jan Hrušák, Chair of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, called for a new ambition for European science to go beyond the existing frontiers of knowledge and find sustainable solutions to growing global challenges. 

Recent additions to the plant phenotyping infrastructure PHENOME-EMPHASIS

The national phenotyping network PhenomUK was formally launched in February 2019 with first projects to start in autumn. In other news, phenotyping is highlighted as a key emerging theme in the UKRI Infrastructure Roadmap Progress Report, and the UK reaffirms its commitment to a strong research partnership with Europe in its International Research and Innovation Strategy.

EPPN2020 provides access to 31 phenotyping facilities in Europe researchers from academia and industry by the Transnational Access projects.

PhenomUK builds on advances in fundamental engineering and physical sciences, bringing the necessary disciplines into closer contact and promoting an integrated, holistic view of the phenotyping process across the UK.

Prototype developed as part of
vPheno. Photo: Pål S. Vindfallet

The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) is coordinating an industrial innovation project in plant breeding that seeks to combine high throughput field phenotyping with genomic selection and virtual reality in collaboration with the plant breeding company Graminor, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico  as well as Boston University in the USA.

On 22 May 2019, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Cyprus approved the action plan submitted by the Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, regarding the initiative by the President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades to address Climate Change on a regional level.

Several Serbian institutes actively engage in the EPPN2020 for transnational access. 

 

Application deadline: 8^th of July 2019

 New version of MIAPPE published

 

Application deadline: 28^th of January 2019

   

Deadline for manuscript submission: 23 November 2018

Deadline: 31 July 2018

 

Application deadline: 29 June 2018

   

Deadline: Summer 2019

  

Call for Papers

Submission due (full paper or 1 page abstract):  06 July 2018 

Notification of acceptance:  17 July 2018 

Camera-ready (full papers only): TBD

Workshop date: 06 Sept 2018