
Stories from the University of Cambridge
Agriculture and Sustainability
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Stories from the University of Cambridge
Tools
DNA resources and common standards for plant synthetic biology, focused on Marchantia engineering.
Developing open-source silicon hardware designs and the “Silicon Commons” as a collaborative framework.
Applications
An electrochemical sensor designed to continuously monitor the pH of tomato xylem sap, as a marker of abiotic stress.
A low-cost, easy-to-build and -use image analysis system to measure plant root area and nematode infection, along with other phenotypes.
Automating seed imaging and high throughput germination analysis for a variety of crop seeds.
Open source software to pair with a backpack LiDAR device for measuring canopy-level crop performance.
Open-source platform using analysing aerial imagery acquired by low-cost drones using machine learning and plant phenotyping algorithms.