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WIWAM Phenotyping systems at the NPEC facilities in Wageningen (NL)
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Two gantries are fitted into two of the NPEC greenhouse compartments and in the other two conveyor systems are installed with measurement area containing the imaging cabinets. The WIWAM framework ensures smooth integration of a whole set of sensors…
WIWAM @ Biostimulant World Congres
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Meet us at the Biostimulant World Congres, which will be held on November 18-21 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. The Biostimulant World meeting is the world’s leading and largest international event on agricultural biostimulants. Please, visit us our booth…
WIWAM @ IPPS2019
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Meet us at the 6th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium (IPPS2019), which will be held from 22-26 October, 2019 in Nanjing, China.
IPPS2019 will address the recent development in plant phenotyping and provide a platform for discussion and…
WIWAM @ ICAR2019
NewsMeet us at the 30 th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2019), which will be held on June 16-21, 2019 in Wuhan, China. ICAR conference covers all aspects of plant biology on Arabidopsis as well as other plant species, generally attracting…
WIWAM @ CROPib
NewsMeet us at the CROPib conference, which will be held on April 14-16 2019 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The CROPib meeting brings together both people from academia and industry to present the latest innovations in agriculture and plant breeding. Please,…
Scientific publication in Nature Biotech including WIWAM xy
NewsAlthough drought tolerance is a central concern of plant research, the translatability for crop improvement is relatively low. Here we report on a major contributing factor to this lack of success. Drought tolerance is predominately scored based on an…
Optimization of the WIWAM xy design and installation @ VIB
NewsAt this stage the initial WIWAM xy prototype was largely improved. The hardware programming was optimized and extended with the addition of an RFID scanner, the combination of the weighing and watering station in a single rotating table, and the integration…
WIWAM line design and final installation @ VIB
NewsWIWAM line comprises a pot positioning table, consisting of several individual lines, an underlying portal robot, and one or more stations for imaging or weighing/watering activities. The complete system was implemented in an existing growth room, and…
Collaboration agreement between SMO and VIB
NewsThe WIWAM machines are the result of intensive collaboration between machine builder SMO and the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). By signing a collaboration agreement both parties join forces in order to make the plant phenotyping technology…
SPECIM: a reliable partner for hyperspectral imaging
NewsHyperspectral imaging is today’s technology to reveal the invisible, to generate an in depth understanding of phenomena and objects studied. The technology is used increasingly in many research areas, such as life sciences, vegetation research, forensics,…
Biopute: an official WIWAM dealer in China
NewsWIWAM joined forces with Biopute to make the phenotyping platforms available in China. Biopute will provide professional marketing and technical support for the WIWAM products. Furthermore, they will install an after-sales service to make local maintenance…
Official opening WIWAM Conveyor setup @ VIB
NewsThe finalization of the WIWAM Conveyor setup @ VIB was celebrated with an official opening event on October 3rd 2014 in the presence of about 60 people mainly representing politics, universities, and plant biotech companies. The event started with an…
WIWAM Conveyor was presented at the “Cereal Future Forum”
NewsFrom February 11-12, 2015, Bayer CropScience organized ‘the Cereal Future Forum’ in Brussels. Around 230 participants from 30 countries joined the 2-day conference on the future of wheat production in the world.
The last day, the Cereal Future Forum…
WIWAM @ Plant Organ Growth Symposium
NewsSize control of multi-cellular organisms such as plants poses a longstanding biological question that has fascinated scientists from every time and generation. Currently the question on how size is measured and fixed during growth of an organ or organism…
Banana and strawberry plants on WIWAM Conveyor
NewsDuring summer, the partners of the Phenovision consortium had the possibility to run some test experiments on the WIWAM Conveyor phenotyping platform at VIB. The research group of Prof. Sebastien Carpentier of the KU Leuven performed an initial test to…
Can we predict the final size of maize plants?
NewsAlthough several approaches to identify genes and networks involved in final organ size have been proven successful, our understanding remains fragmentary. The variation in 103 lines of the Zea mays B73xH99 RIL population was assessed for a set of final…
EMBO practical course on plant phenotyping @ VIB
NewsFrom 13 – 19 September VIB – Ghent University, Université Catholique de Louvain, and Université de Liège joined forces in organizing an EMBO practical course entitled “Insights into plant biological processes through phenotyping” in Ghent,…
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