UiO
The team
- Paul Grini – Professor at Section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Leader of the Purchase installation, testing and quality control in PheNo
- Karina Stensland Hornslien – PheNo Senior Engineer at Section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology
The Plant Laboratory at University of Oslo is located at the Department of Biosciences. The Plant facility offers climate controlled cultivation of plants in growth chambers and specializes in cultivation of GMO plants (security level S3).
About
At UiO: PheNo we are experts in phenotyping across different research areas and topics such as genetics, epigenetics, molecular biology, developmental biology in Arabidopsis thaliana, A. arenosa and A. lyrata. The facility also has experience with growing other smaller research plants such as Draba, Brassica and Fragaria.
Research topics:
hybridization barriers, epigenetic gene regulation, seed development, plant
reproduction,abscission, natural variation, evolution, plant stress response.
Services provided:
Automated seed surface phenotyping of small seeds, such as Arabidopsis. Boxeed 2.1 (Labdeers) will be installed in August 2025. With this we can provide analysis of :
- Seed surface by measuring shape, structure and color,
- Boxeed2.1 is equipped with RGB and fluorescence sensors
- Automated planting of sorted seeds to agar media in petri dishes or multiwell plates
Applications: High-throughput seed phenotyping, selection of CRISPR transformants with fluorescence selection marker.
To be announced:
- Phenotyping of small plants/seedlings/germination assays on agar medium, closed or open petri dishes. Sensors: Kinetic chlorophyll fluorescence, RGB
- Semi-automated phenotyping of smaller plants (max 50-70 cm tall) grown in soil
Sensors: Hyperspectral (VNIR), fluorescence (chlorophyll or protein markers), RGB