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Helli Meinecke
Business Manager
The Plant Accelerator
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia
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Telephone: +61 8 8313 0808
Facsimile: +61 8 8313 0828

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Open for Business in 2010

The Plant Accelerator opened its doors on 28 January 2010. read more

Latest Publication

Tester MA, Langridge P (2010) Breeding Technologies to Increase Crop Production in a Changing World. Science 327, 818-822. Abstract Reprint Full Text

Furbank, R.T., ed. (2009) Plant phenomics: from gene to form and function, Functional Plant Biology, Volume 36 Number 10 & 11, Special Issue.

Finkel, E. (2009) With ‘phenomics’ plant scientists hope to shift breeding into overdrive. Science 325, 380-381.

The Plant Accelerator

The Plant Accelerator^TM, located at the Waite Campus of the University of Adelaide, is a world-leading plant growth and analysis facility, which accelerates pure and applied plant science research Australia-wide and internationally.

Over 1km of conveyor systems and state-of-the art imaging, robotic and computing equipment, allow continuous measurements of the physical attributes (phenotype) of plants automatically and non-destructively.

The facility can accommodate 160,000 plants a year in programs such as those aimed at increasing drought and salinity tolerance in wheat and barley. Research on other economically important crops such as grapevines can also be accommodated.

Established under the Commonwealth Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), The Plant Accelerator^TM serves as the national headquarters of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, which includes the High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre in Canberra.

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