Bettina Berger

Associate Professor Bettina Berger

Scientific Director - The Plant Accelerator

School of Agriculture, Food and Wine

Faculty of Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

After a Masters degree in biotechnology and a PhD in plant molecular biology, I used a two-year fellowship to focus on the emerging field of plant phenomics. I joined the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics in 2008, where I used non-destructive imaging to study the effects of salinity on barley.

In 2010, I joined the newly established Plant Accelerator as Senior Scientist and became Scientific Director in 2015. The Plant Accelerator is one of the nodes of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) funded under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) and provides critical infrastructure and services to the plant science community. In my roles, I have set up novel screening techniques to study plant growth and performance using automated, non-destructive imaging. I have engaged with researchers at all stages of their career, from the public sector and industry. The Plant Accelerator is accessed by researchers from Australian and overseas, including users from Europe, North America and Saudi Arabia. I enjoy the opportunity of hosting visiting students and scientists and train them in modern phenotyping approaches. I have managed large scale phenotyping projects looking at various aspects of plant performance, including early vigour, salinity tolerance and nutrient use efficiency.

While my basic research has focused on salinity tolerance, I am equally passionate about developing novel phenotyping approaches to support plant scientists in answering their research questions. Working together with customers and learning from each other to achieve the best possible outcome for their research project has been my biggest motivation.

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  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2015 Scientific Director The University of Adelaide
    2010 - 2015 Senior Scientist The University of Adelaide
    2008 - 2010 Feodor-Lynen Research Fellow ACPFG, University of Adelaide
    2007 - 2008 Research Assistant University of Cologne

  • Language Competencies
    Language Competency
    English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
    French Can read, write, speak and understand spoken
    German Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    2003 - 2007 International Max-Planck Research School, Cologne Germany PhD in Plant Science
    2000 - 2003 Ecole Superieure de Biotechnology, Strasbourg France Master in Biotechnology
    1998 - 2000 Eberhardt-Karls University, Tuebingen Germany Undergraduate Diploma in Biology

  • Research Interests
    Agricultural Biotechnology Plant Physiology
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  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2021 Tran, B. T. T., Cavagnaro, T. R., Jewell, N., Brien, C., Berger, B., & Watts-Williams, S. J. (2021). High-throughput phenotyping reveals growth of Medicago truncatula is positively affected by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi even at high soil phosphorus availability. Plants People Planet, 3(5), 600-613.
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    2021 Ball, K. R., Woodin, S. J., Power, S. A., Brien, C., Berger, B., Smith, P., & Pendall, E. (2021). Integrating Ecological Stoichiometry to Understand Nutrient Limitation and Potential for Competition in Mixed Pasture Assemblages. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 21(3), 2489-2500.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1
    2021 Borjigin, C., Schilling, R. K., Jewell, N., Brien, C., Sanchez-Ferrero, J. C., Eckermann, P., . . . Roy, S. (2021). Identifying the genetic control of salinity tolerance in the bread wheat landrace Mocho de Espiga Branca. Functional Plant Biology, 48(11), 1148-1160.
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    2021 Salomon, M. J., Watts-Williams, S. J., McLaughlin, M. J., Brien, C. J., Jewell, N., Berger, B., & Cavagnaro, T. R. (2021). Evaluation of commercial composts and potting mixes and their ability to support arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with maize (Zea mays) as host plant.. Waste Manag, 134, 187-196.
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    2021 Watts-Williams, S. J., Gill, A. R., Jewell, N., Brien, C. J., Berger, B., Tran, B. T. T., . . . Cavagnaro, T. R. (2021). Enhancement of sorghum grain yield and nutrition: A role for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi regardless of soil phosphorus availability. Plants People Planet.
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    2021 Matros, A., Houston, K., Tucker, M. R., Schreiber, M., Berger, B., Aubert, M. K., . . . Burton, R. A. (2021). Genome-wide association study reveals the genetic complexity of fructan accumulation patterns in barley grain. Journal of Experimental Botany, 72(7), 2383-2402.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS3 Europe PMC3
    2021 Asif, M. A., Garcia, M., Tilbrook, J., Brien, C., Dowling, K., Berger, B., . . . Pearson, A. S. (2021). Identification of salt tolerance QTL in a wheat RIL mapping population using destructive and non-destructive phenotyping. Functional Plant Biology, 48(2), 131-140.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS4 Europe PMC2
    2020 Konate, M., Wilkinson, M. J., Taylor, J., Scott, E. S., Berger, B., & Rodriguez Lopez, C. M. (2020). Greenhouse spatial effects detected in the barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Epigenome underlie stochasticity of DNA methylation. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, 553907-1-553907-15.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC2
    2020 Ball, K. R., Power, S. A., Brien, C., Woodin, S., Jewell, N., Berger, B., & Pendall, E. (2020). High-throughput, image-based phenotyping reveals nutrient-dependent growth facilitation in a grass-legume mixture.. PLoS One, 15(10), 1-18.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1
    2020 Borjigin, C., Schilling, R., Bose, J., Hrmova, M., Qiu, J., Wege, S., . . . Roy, S. (2020). A single nucleotide substitution in TaHKT1;5-D controls shoot Na+ accumulation in bread wheat.
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    2020 Brien, C., Jewell, N., Watts-Williams, S. J., Garnett, T., & Berger, B. (2020). Smoothing and extraction of traits in the growth analysis of noninvasive phenotypic data.. Plant Methods, 16(1), 1-21.
    DOI Scopus8 WoS9 Europe PMC2
    2020 Matros, A., Houston, K., Tucker, M., Schreiber, M., Berger, B., Aubert, M., . . . Burton, R. (2020). GWAS reveals the genetic complexity of fructan accumulation patterns in barley grain.
    DOI Europe PMC1
    2020 Borjigin, C., Schilling, R. K., Bose, J., Hrmova, M., Qiu, J., Wege, S., . . . Roy, S. J. (2020). A single nucleotide substitution in TaHKT1;5-D controls shoot Na⁺ accumulation in bread wheat. Plant, Cell and Environment, 43(9), 2158-2171.
    DOI Scopus7 WoS6 Europe PMC2
    2020 Liu, H., Bruning, B., Garnett, T., & Berger, B. (2020). Hyperspectral imaging and 3D technologies for plant phenotyping: From satellite to close-range sensing. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 175, 13 pages.
    DOI Scopus17 WoS14
    2020 Bruning, B., Berger, B., Lewis, M., Liu, H., & Garnett, T. (2020). Approaches, applications, and future directions for hyperspectral vegetation studies: An emphasis on yield‐limiting factors in wheat. The Plant Phenome Journal, 3(1), 22 pages.
    DOI Scopus10
    2020 Saade, S., Brien, C., Pailles, Y., Berger, B., Shahid, M., Russell, J., . . . Tester, M. (2020). Dissecting new genetic components of salinity tolerance in two-row spring barley at the vegetative and reproductive stages. PloS one, 15(7), e0236037-1-e0236037-19.
    DOI Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC3
    2020 Liu, H., Bruning, B., Garnett, T., & Berger, B. (2020). The performances of hyperspectral sensors for proximal sensing of nitrogen levels in wheat. Sensors (Switzerland), 20(16), 1-21.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS2
    2020 Konate, M., Wilkinson, M., Taylor, J., Scott, E., Berger, B., & Rodriguez Lopez, C. M. (2020). Greenhouse spatial effects detected in the barley (Hordeum vulgareL.) epigenome underlie stochasticity of DNA methylation.
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    2020 Broad, R. C., Bonneau, J. P., Beasley, J. T., Roden, S., Sadowski, P., Jewell, N., . . . Johnson, A. A. T. (2020). Effect of Rice GDP-L-Galactose Phosphorylase Constitutive Overexpression on Ascorbate Concentration, Stress Tolerance, and Iron Bioavailability in Rice. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, 1-13.
    DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC2
    2019 Watts-Fawkes, S. J., Jewell, N., Brien, C., Berger, B., Garnett, T., & Cavagnaro, T. R. (2019). Using High-Throughput Phenotyping to Explore Growth Responses to Mycorrhizal Fungi and Zinc in Three Plant Species. Plant Phenomics, 2019, 5893953-1-5893953-12.
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    2019 Bruning, B., Liu, H., Brien, C., Berger, B., Lewis, M., & Garnett, T. (2019). The Development of Hyperspectral Distribution Maps to Predict the Content and Distribution of Nitrogen and Water in Wheat (Triticum aestivum).. Frontiers in plant science, 10, 1380.
    DOI Scopus23 WoS23 Europe PMC5
    2019 Pham, A. T., Maurer, A., Pillen, K., Brien, C., Dowling, K., Berger, B., . . . March, T. J. (2019). Genome-wide association of barley plant growth under drought stress using a nested association mapping population. BMC Plant Biology, 19(1), 134-1-134-16.
    DOI Scopus22 WoS23 Europe PMC9
    2019 Riley, R., Cavagnaro, T., Brien, C., Smith, F. A., Smith, S., Berger, B., . . . Powell, J. (2019). Resource allocation to growth or luxury consumption drives mycorrhizal responses. Ecology Letters, 22(11), 1757-1766.
    DOI Scopus13 WoS13 Europe PMC2
    2019 Ward, B., Brien, C., Oakey, H., Pearson, A., Negrão, S., Schilling, R. K., . . . Van Den Hengel, A. (2019). High‐throughput 3D modelling to dissect the genetic control of leaf elongation in barley (Hordeum vulgare). The Plant Journal, 98(3), 555-570.
    DOI Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC6
    2018 Asif, M. A., Schilling, R. K., Tilbrook, J., Brien, C., Dowling, K., Rabie, H., . . . Pearson, A. S. (2018). Mapping of novel salt tolerance QTL in an Excalibur x Kukri doubled haploid wheat population. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 131(10), 2179-2196.
    DOI Scopus31 WoS31 Europe PMC8
    2018 Konate, M., Wilkinson, M., Mayne, B., Pederson, S., Scott, E., Berger, B., & Rodriguez Lopez, C. (2018). Salt Stress Induces Non-CG Methylation in Coding Regions of Barley Seedlings (Hordeum vulgare). Epigenomes, 2(2), 12.
    DOI Scopus10
    2018 Yichie, Y., Brien, C., Berger, B., Roberts, T., & Atwell, B. (2018). Salinity tolerance in Australian wild Oryza species varies widely and matches that observed in O. sativa. Rice, 11(1), 14 pages.
    DOI Scopus19 WoS19 Europe PMC6
    2018 Konaté, M., Wilkinson, M. J., Mayne, B. T., Pederson, S. M., Scott, E. S., Berger, B., & Rodriguez Lopez, C. M. (2018). Salt Stress Induces Non-CG Methylation in Coding Regions of Barley Seedlings (Hordeum vulgare). Epigenomes, 2(2), 12.
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    2017 Meng, R., Saade, S., Kurtek, S., Berger, B., Brien, C., Pillen, K., . . . Sun, Y. (2017). Growth curve registration for evaluating salinity tolerance in barley. Plant Methods, 13(1), 18-1-18-9.
    DOI Scopus21 WoS20 Europe PMC6
    2017 Atieno, J., Li, Y., Langridge, P., Dowling, K., Brien, C., Berger, B., . . . Sutton, T. (2017). Exploring genetic variation for salinity tolerance in chickpea using image-based phenotyping. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 11 pages.
    DOI Scopus39 WoS36 Europe PMC14
    2017 Campbell, M., Du, Q., Liu, K., Brien, C., Berger, B., Zhang, C., & Walia, H. (2017). A comprehensive image-based phenomic analysis reveals the complex genetic architecture of shoot growth dynamics in rice (Oryza sativa). Plant Genome, 10(2), 1-14.
    DOI Scopus23 WoS19 Europe PMC15
    2017 Tilbrook, J., Schilling, R., Berger, B., Garcia, A., Trittermann, C., Coventry, S., . . . Roy, S. (2017). Variation in shoot tolerance mechanisms not related to ion toxicity in barley. Functional Plant Biology, 44(12), 1194-1206.
    DOI Scopus16 WoS16 Europe PMC2
    2017 Qiongyan, L., Cai, J., Berger, B., Okamoto, M., & Miklavcic, S. (2017). Detecting spikes of wheat plants using neural networks with Laws texture energy. Plant Methods, 13(1), 83-1-83-13.
    DOI Scopus36 WoS18 Europe PMC12
    2016 Al-Tamimi, N., Brien, C., Oakey, H., Berger, B., Saade, S., Ho, Y., . . . Negrão, S. (2016). Salinity tolerance loci revealed in rice using high-throughput non-invasive phenotyping. Nature Communications, 7(1), 13342-1-13342-11.
    DOI Scopus111 WoS104 Europe PMC61
    2015 Neilson, E., Edwards, A., Blomstedt, C., Berger, B., Møller, B., & Gleadow, R. (2015). Utilization of a high-throughput shoot imaging system to examine the dynamic phenotypic responses of a C₄ cereal crop plant to nitrogen and water deficiency over time. Journal of Experimental Botany, 66(7), 1817-1832.
    DOI Scopus112 WoS103 Europe PMC60
    2015 Schmöckel, S., Garcia, A., Berger, B., Tester, M., Webb, A., & Roy, S. (2015). Different NaCl-induced calcium signatures in the arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes Col-0 and C24. PLoS One, 10(2), e0117564-1-e0117564-9.
    DOI Scopus12 WoS8 Europe PMC7
    2015 Campbell, M., Knecht, A., Berger, B., Brien, C., Wang, D., & Walia, H. (2015). Integrating image-based phenomics and association analysis to dissect the genetic architecture of temporal salinity responses in rice. Plant Physiology, 168(4), 1476-1489.
    DOI Scopus91 WoS82 Europe PMC49
    2015 Parent, B., Shahinnia, F., Maphosa, L., Berger, B., Rabie, H., Chalmers, K., . . . Fleury, D. (2015). Combining field performance with controlled environment plant imaging to identify the genetic control of growth and transpiration underlying yield response to water-deficit stress in wheat. Journal of Experimental Botany, 66(18), 5481-5492.
    DOI Scopus48 WoS41 Europe PMC20
    2015 Takahashi, F., Tilbrook, J., Trittermann, C., Berger, B., Roy, S., Seki, M., . . . Tester, M. (2015). Comparison of leaf sheath transcriptome profiles with physiological traits of bread wheat cultivars under salinity stress. PLoS One, 10(8), e0133322-1-e0133322-23.
    DOI Scopus24 WoS24 Europe PMC9
    2014 Hairmansis, A., Berger, B., Tester, M., & Roy, S. (2014). Image-based phenotyping for non-destructive screening of different salinity tolerance traits in rice. Rice, 7(1), 16-1-16-10.
    DOI Scopus90 WoS80 Europe PMC44
    2014 Schilling, R., Marschner, P., Shavrukov, Y., Berger, B., Tester, M., Roy, S., & Plett, D. (2014). Expression of the Arabidopsis vacuolar H⁺-pyrophosphatase gene (AVP1) improves the shoot biomass of transgenic barley and increases grain yield in a saline field. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 12(3), 378-386.
    DOI Scopus99 WoS89 Europe PMC52
    2014 Honsdorf, N., March, T., Berger, B., Tester, M., & Pillen, K. (2014). High-throughput phenotyping to detect drought tolerance QTL in wild barley introgression lines. PLoS One, 9(5), e97047-1-e97047-13.
    DOI Scopus152 WoS129 Europe PMC77
    2014 Frerigmann, H., Berger, B., & Gigolashvili, T. (2014). bHLH05 is an interaction partner of MYB51 and a novel regulator of glucosinolate biosynthesis in arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 166(1), 349-369.
    DOI Scopus64 WoS63 Europe PMC42
    2013 Hayes, J., Pallotta, M., Baumann, U., Berger, B., Langridge, P., & Sutton, T. (2013). Germanium as a tool to dissect boron toxicity effects in barley and wheat. Functional Plant Biology, 40(6), 618-627.
    DOI Scopus13 WoS13 Europe PMC2
    2013 Brien, C., Berger, B., Rabie, H., & Tester, M. (2013). Accounting for variation in designing greenhouse experiments with special reference to greenhouses containing plants on conveyor systems. Plant Methods, 9(1), 1-22.
    DOI Scopus36 WoS34 Europe PMC16
    2011 golzarian, M., Frick, R., Rajendran, K., Berger, B., Roy, S., Tester, M., & Lun, D. (2011). Accurate inference of shoot biomass from high-throughput images of cereal plants. Plant Methods, 7(2), 1-11.
    DOI Scopus197 WoS174 Europe PMC82
    2010 Berger, B., Parent, B., & Tester, M. (2010). High-throughput shoot imaging to study drought responses. Journal of Experimental Botany, 61(13), 3519-3528.
    DOI Scopus221 WoS186 Europe PMC89
    2009 Gigolashvili, T., Berger, B., & Flugge, U. (2009). Specific and coordinated control of indolic and aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthesis by R2R3-MYB transcription factors in Arabidopsis thaliana. Phytochemistry Reviews: fundamentals and perspectives of natural products research, 8(1), 3-13.
    DOI Scopus94 WoS88
    2008 Roy, S., Gilliham, M., Berger, B., Essah, P., Cheffings, C., Miller, A., . . . Tester, M. (2008). Investigating glutamate receptor-like gene co-expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell and Environment, 31(6), 861-871.
    DOI Scopus81 WoS76 Europe PMC53
    2007 Gigolashvili, T., Yatusevich, R., Berger, B., Muller, C., & Flugge, U. (2007). The R2R3-MYB transcription factor HAG1/MYB28 is a regulator of methionine-derived glucosinolate biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Journal, 51(2), 247-261.
    DOI Scopus285 WoS289 Europe PMC197
    2007 Gigolashvili, T., Berger, B., Mock, H., Muller, C., Weisshaar, B., & Flugge, U. (2007). The transcription factor HIG1/MYB51 regulates indolic glucosinolate biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Journal, 50(5), 886-901.
    DOI Scopus282 WoS281 Europe PMC201
    2007 Berger, B., Stracke, R., Yatusevich, R., Weisshaar, B., Flugge, U., & Gigolashvili, T. (2007). A simplified method for the analysis of transcription factor-promoter interactions that allows high-throughput data generation. Plant Journal, 50(5), 911-916.
    DOI Scopus39 WoS39 Europe PMC31

  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2018 Hansen, N. J. S., Plett, D., Berger, B., & Garnett, T. (2018). Tackling Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Cereal Crops Using High-Throughput Phenotyping. In A. Shrawat, A. Zayed, & D. A. Lightfoot (Eds.), Engineering Nitrogen Utilization in Crop Plants (pp. 121-139). Switzerland: Springer.
    DOI Scopus3
    2013 Berger, B., de Regt, B., & Tester, M. (2013). Applications of high-throughput plant phenotyping to study nutrient use efficiency. In F. J. M. Maathuis (Ed.), Plant mineral nutrients: methods in molecular biology (Vol. 953, pp. 277-290). Online: Humana Press.
    DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC1
    2012 Berger, B., de Regt, S., & Tester, M. (2012). Trait dissection of salinity tolerance with plant phenomics. In S. Shabala, & T. Cuin (Eds.), Plant Salt Tolerance: Methods and Protocols (Vol. 913, pp. 399-413). USA: Humana Press.
    DOI Scopus20 Europe PMC10
    2012 Berger, B., de Regt, S., & Tester, M. (2012). High-throughput phenotyping of plant shoots. In J. Normanly (Ed.), High-Throughput Phenotyping in Plants: Methods and Protocols (Vol. 918, 1 ed., pp. 9-20). USA: Springer.
    DOI Scopus32 Europe PMC11
    2010 Plett, D., Berger, B., & Tester, M. (2010). Genetic determinants of salinity tolerance in crop plants. In M. Jenks, & A. Wood (Eds.), Genes for Plant Abiotic Stress (pp. 83-111). USA: Blackwell Publishers Inc.
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    2009 Plett, D., Berger, B., & Tester, M. (2009). Genetic Determinants of Salinity Tolerance in Crop Plants. In Genes for Plant Abiotic Stress (pp. 81-111). Wiley-Blackwell.
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    — Konate, M., J. Wilkinson, M., T. Mayne, B., S. Scott, E., Berger, B., & M. Rodríguez López, C. (n.d.). Atlas of Age- and Tissue-Specific DNA Methylation during Early Development of Barley (Hordeum vulgare). In DNA Methylation Mechanism. IntechOpen.
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  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2015 Ward, B., Bastian, J., van den Hengel, A., Pooley, D., Rajendra, B., Berger, B., & Tester, M. (2015). A model-based approach to recovering the structure of a plant from images. In L. Agapito, M. Bronstein, & C. Rother (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCV 2014), as published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 8928 (pp. 215-230). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS2
    2014 Qiongyan, L., Cai, J., Berger, B., & Miklavcic, S. (2014). Study on spike detection of cereal plants. In Proceedings of the 2014 13th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics and Vision (pp. 228-233). Singapore, Singapore: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
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    2004 Gigolashvili, T., Schneider, A., Berger, B., Mock, H. P., & Fluegge, U. (2004). IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF NEW TRANSCRIPTIONAL FACTORS INVOLVED IN PLANT SECONDARY METABOLISM USING A. THALIANA ACTIVATION TAGGED LINES. In ACTA PHYSIOLOGIAE PLANTARUM Vol. 26 (pp. 151-152). SPRINGER HEIDELBERG.

  • Conference Items
    Year Citation
    2019 Liu, H., Bruning, B., Berger, B., & Garnett, T. (2019). Green plant segmentation in hyperspectral images using SVM and hyper-hue. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings: 7th International Workshop on Image Analysis Methods for the Plant Sciences (IAMPS 2019). Lyon, France.
    2016 Konate, M., Wilkinson, M. J., Scott, E., Mayne, B., Berger, B., & Rodriguez Lopez, C. M. (2016). Tissue specificity of salinity stress induced DNA methylation markers in barley (Hordeum vulgare). Poster session presented at the meeting of ComBio 2016. Brisbane.

  • Datasets
    Year Citation
    — Berger, B., Jewell, N., Brien, C., Power, S., Woodin, S., Pendall, E., & Ball, K. (n.d.). Supplementary data - High-throughput, image-based phenotyping reveals nutrient-dependent growth facilitation in a grass – legume mixture - PLoS One.
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Recent grants and funding:

Dates Role Grant
2020-2022 Lead CI Australian Research Data Commons - OzBarley, from genome to phenome and back
2018-2023 CI National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) – Australian Plant Phenomics Facility
2013-2019 CI National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) – Australian Plant Phenomics Facility
2019-2023 CI SA Department for Industry and Skills – The Plant Accelerator
2020-2023 Lead CI

GRDC – Improved late maturity alpha-amylase screening
2020-2023 CI AgriFutures - New technologies for oaten hay phenotyping
2020-2022 CI GRDC – Machine learning to extract maximum value from soil and crop variability
2019-2021 CI GRDC plus co-contributions – Accelerating wheat genetic gain by establishing a high-throughput spike phenotyping platform
2018-2019 CI Australian Research Data Commons – Agricultural Research Data Cloud
2013-2016 CI GRDC – Development of salinity tolerant wheat and barley

 

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  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2019 Principal Supervisor Development of Sensor-based Phenotyping Approaches for Ascochyta Blight Resistance Breeding of Chickpea Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Florian Carl-August Tanner

  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor The Measurement of Nutrient Levels and Yield Constraints in Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Using Hyperspectral Sensing Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Brooke Bruning
    2015 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Quantifying Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Wheat Using High-Precision Phenotyping Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nicholas John Sitlington Hansen
    2013 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Assessment of Stress-induced and Developmentally-induced DNA Methylation Changes in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Moumouni Konate
    2012 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Salinity detection and control of sodium transport in Arabidopsis thaliana Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Sandra Manuela Schmoeckel
    2010 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Modifying sodium transport to improve salinity tolerance of commercial rice cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr . Aris Hairmansis
  • Position: Scientific Director - The Plant Accelerator
  • Phone: 83130825
  • Email: bettina.berger@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 8313 0828
  • Campus: Waite
  • Building: The Plant Accelerator, floor 1
  • Room: 1 37
  • Org Unit: School of Agriculture, Food and Wine
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