10 News & Press Releases found
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Optimization of the WIWAM xy design and installation @ VIB
At 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 ...
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WIWAM line design and final installation @ VIB
WIWAM 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, ...
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Collaboration agreement between SMO and VIB
The 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 ...
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SPECIM: a reliable partner for hyperspectral imaging
Hyperspectral 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 ...
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Biopute: an official WIWAM dealer in China
WIWAM 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 ...
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Official opening WIWAM Conveyor setup @ VIB
The 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 ...
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Scientific publication in Plant Physiology including WIWAM xy
Although the response of plants exposed to severe drought stress has been studied extensively, little is known about how plants adapt their growth under mild drought stress conditions. Here, we analyzed the leaf and rosette growth response of six ...
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WIWAM Conveyor was presented at the `Cereal Future Forum`
From 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 ...
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WIWAM @ Plant Organ Growth Symposium
Size 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 ...
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Scientific publication in Nature Biotech including WIWAM xy
Although 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 ...