Bettina Berger

@bberger-au.bsky.social

Plant scientist, using cameras and other sensors to measure plants 🧪🌱📸. Adelaide, Kaurna country.Views are my own.

🚀🧬 EBP dream team launches the Phase II roadmap to sequence all Eukaryotic life on Earth! 🔥 Hot off the press (2025) 👉http://bit.ly/46ko9cZ 🌍 EBP's vision of sequencing all 1.8 million named eukaryotic species is now within reach—powered by unprecedented global collaboration.

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Congratulations to @futurecropsau.bsky.social PhD student Yiting Xie, who has just had his first manuscript accepted in Plant Phenomics. bit.ly/3UrkFP6. Yiting’s work uses images and machine learning to help determine when a wheat plant will flower.

Multi-Modal Few-Shot Learning for Anthesis Prediction of Individual Wheat Plants

Anthesis prediction is crucial for breeding wheat. While current tools provide estimates of average anthesis at the field scale, they fail to address …

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In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention. Will US science survive Trump 2.0? www.nature.com/articles/d41...