Plant projects

We will build a system for soil respiration analysis, a key health indicator for microbiological activity and organic matter content.

We aim to accelerate our phenotyping of plant-nematode infection by prototyping new hardware for automated imaging.

A 3D imaging platform to capture root and shoot structural data to complement an aeroponics system.

We incorporated a simple and low-cost triboelectric generator to harvest mechanical energy from peristaltic pumps, and enhance plant growth

We developed a solar-powered sensing device, able to determine and track key environmental parameters in real time.

We developed a simple, low-cost equipment for the study of soil chemistry and morphology using an arduino microcontroller.

We report a handheld, portable potentiostat with a user-friendly interface for electrochemical sensing using a wireless power supply.

In this project, different sensors for the quantification of water availability in plans are compared for smart irrigation applications.

A low-cost multi-purpose 3D digital photography phenotyping station

An automated plant growth chamber to grow and monitor Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings for plant research.

The development of a low-cost CEA chamber with built-in stress monitoring systems

Making a CNC gene gun for quick, fully-automated plant transformation.

Plant and algae health can be determined by measuring its chlorophyll levels with a non-expensive Arduino Uno-based spectrophotometer.

We aim to provide a low-cost precision agriculture solution powered by biophotovoltaics, and we start with developing a prototype.

This is an outreach project aiming to promote the use of aeroponic growing systems.

A raspberry pi based cereal phenotyping device.

This is a Raspberry Pi Zero-based time-lapse photo / video camera to monitor plant-pollinator interactions in the field.

Establishing the capacity to tackle some of East-Africa's most devastating crop pathogens through partnership and collaboration.

Use microdroplets to mimic the compartmentation of metabolism in multicellular systems.

New stress priming treatment in green alga for hyperaccumulation of biodiesel precursors.

A synthetic biology approach to investigate the where and how receptor kinase signalling operates in arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis.

Our aim is to generate genome-wide DNA hypomethylated wheat to study i) synthetic remodeling of meiotic recombination and ii) epigenetic control of wheat heterosis.

We aim to establish a CRISPR/Cpf1-based technique to insert transgenes into specific genome sites that are predicted to promote high expression.

Our goal is to develop a new method that will facilitate the design of synthetic promoters with varying strength or specificity and will be a useful tool for genome engineering.

This project specifically aims to develop tags in Marchantia for localisation to the tonoplast (vacuole membrane), Golgi apparatus, oil bodies, peroxisome and mitochondria.

We are converting a cloth rail into a self-maintaining plant growing system! It monitors and takes care of plants for their perfect growing.

Our aim is to build an LED lighting array system and write software that can enable researchers to explore a range of physiological responses under more natural dawn and dusk lighting transitions.