New STARGATE publication | April 2024

STARGATE partners strike again! We are very pleased to share the paper entitled “Automated and non-destructive estimation of soluble solid content of tomatoes on the plant under variable light conditions” developed under the STARGATE project scope. Jos Ruizendaal, Gerrit Polder, and Gert Kootstra propose a dynamic calibration method to deal with the variable light conditions in a greenhouse to predict the …

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9th F&A NEXT Summit

We are pleased to share this upcoming event (22nd – 23rd May 2024), co-organized by Wageningen University & Research, dedicated to CATALYZING SUSTAINABLE FOOD & AGRI INNOVATION! Food & Agri tech startups and scale-ups will be presented to dedicated investors and innovative corporates, fostering networking opportunities. Also, the 10 most promising agrifood tech startups will have a special opportunity to present themselves …

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Summer School on Image Analysis for Plant Phenotyping

This Summer School, organized by Wageningen Academy, will provide a complete mixture of the underlying theory and practical hands-on training on image analysis techniques for automatic plant phenotyping. You will have the chance to work on actual plant image analysis issues! Date: 24th June 2024 until 28th June 2024 Venue: Wageningen Campus Target group: Researchers working on automatic phenotyping and technical …

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STARGATE | Workshop 5: Practical solutions for reducing waste/ valorisation strategies: functional phenotyping towards a circular economy

Through its partner UCP, Porto, Portugal, the STARGATE project is organizing the fifth Workshop on the topic of functional phenotyping towards a circular economy on January 30th, 2024. Target Group | 40 participants from STARGATE partner and non-partner entities. Aim | Address phenotyping technologies and phenomic infrastructures as a support to the development of a circular economy. Fees | The workshop …

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New STARGATE publication | December 2023

We are very pleased to share with you the paper entitled “Ripening dynamics revisited: an automated method to track the development of asynchronous berries on time-lapse images” developed under the STARGATE project scope. With the collaboration of INRAE, one of the STARGATE partners, the paper proposes a method to track the growth and coloration kinetics of individual berries on time-lapse images …

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NPEC and their Greenhouse

About NPEC Plants are absolutely essential to our future, where almost all our food, feed and materials will be derived from plants. The NPEC aim is to enable the development of novel adaptive crops and cropping systems required for future food production and food security without destroying our planet. Their plant phenotyping facilities thus will help to meet the world’s …

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Sensing tools: From handheld to large scale

In the framework of the STARGATE project, we are pleased to announce a two-day scientific workshop to be held online on the 18th and 19th of May 2021. This 2-day online workshop will have two-morning sessions with teaching, targeting Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs), including Ph.D. students and young postdocs. Plus, there will be a live tour in the new phenotyping centre …

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