Plant Accelerator Site Tour

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The Plant Accelerator Site Tour

The Plant Accelerator is a 'super high-tech greenhouse' that places it at the cutting edge of international agricultural sustainability, and will deliver significant benefits to Australia’s agriculture and horticulture industries. Known as the Plant Accelerator, the $30 million facility at the University of Adelaide's Waite Campus at Urrbrae is the largest and most sophisticated of its type in the world.

Click here for the map and location of the location of the Plant Accelerator.

The Technology Industry Association is extending an invitation to those who have registered to tour Maptek on Wednesday the 30th of November to also tour the Plant Accelerator's high technology facilities the same day. After morning tea at Maptek, we will meet outside the Plant Accelerator for a guided tour.

To attend the Plant Accelerator Tour, please make sure you are registered for the Maptek tour on the 30th of November, click here to register. Those registered to attend Maptek are automatically registered to attend the Plant Accelerator tour afterwards. It is optional attendance, so if you do not want to attend, you do not have to. An email will be sent at a later date to confirm which attendees will join us for the Plant Accelerator tour.

The Plant Accelerator Features:

50 high-tech glasshouses and laboratories that will house more than 1km of conveyor systems and can accommodate 160 000 plants a year,
Eqipment to image shoots in visible, near-infrared abd far infrared spectra,
Automatic programmable watering to weight of plants on the conveyer system,
State-of-the art imaging, robotic and computing equipment to take 3D images of plants, recording their size, colour, temperature and provide an insight into overall plant health.
Digital imaging technologies, high capacity computing and robotics are combined to allow the automated, high throughput, non-destructive measurement of plant growth and function (“phenomics”). This allows the dissection of traits that contribute to, for example, drought and salinity tolerance and this can be carried out for large populations of plants.