We're looking for a cohort of masters students to study, develop skills and work with companies in AgriTech. Comes with scholarships. tinyurl.com/y2yb9jzs Give it a thought over summer.

My latest paper on characterisation of mechanical properties and cell responses of #blueberries during weight loss. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Thanks to the excellent team Andrew East Sebastián A. Rivera Smith Dr Fred Vanholsbeeck

Here is a link to the paper if you don’t already have access authors.elsevier.com/a/1cnUnxKH20Ze1 The link is provided by the publisher and will be valid for 50 days. Feel free to share this with anyone who is interested.

The biannual Plant Science Central - for all science (🪴or 🧫 or 🧬or 🍎) on Plants in 🇳🇿 will be held IN PERSON (i.e. a conference) Massey University in early July 2021. Lock it in, book travel and have your abstract prepared by end of April. More details here: agscience.org.nz/events/plant-s…

We’re looking for a PhD student to come join us Massey AgriFood Digital Lab and Physics at the University of Auckland to work on a device to non-destructively assess kiwifruit. You can find the full details here: tinyurl.com/9r5mythp or contact Dr. Mo Li for more information.

A reminder that we have 3 PhD scholarships available in digital technologies to join Massey AgriFood Digital Lab Massey University . 2 in sport tinyurl.com/3fjuev6j and 1 in horticulture tinyurl.com/9r5mythp applications. Engineering@Massey NZTech.org.nz

Plant Science Central a bi-annual New Zealand plant science conference is on again this week. About 160 attendees at a science conference, in person. It going to be real pleasure this week. agscience.org.nz/event/plant-sc…

Another Plant Science Central conference #NZPSC2021 successfully concluded. We are very fortunate to be able to meet in person. Great to see some old friends and many new faces. Great work presented by everyone from Massey AgriFood Digital Lab also. See you in 2 years 🌱

Some of our postharvest horticulture team (Zoe Yang Dr. Mo Li and Talon) are visiting Plant & Food Research postharvest and microscopes groups this week to discuss microstructure measurement of fruit. We love collaboration!!

Work led by Sebastián A. Rivera Smith Massey AgriFood Digital Lab is trying to define a suitable mechanical test to reliably assess the textural quality of blueberry. Some of the data is available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.… which relates to the full paper you can find here: doi.org/10.1016/j.post… 🫐

We're looking for Postharvest Technologist to join us Massey AgriFood Digital Lab for 2022 for maternity leave cover. See full details here: tinyurl.com/ysn5z9bv

Opportunity alert 📣 Come & join our team. We are on the look out for a Research Officer-Digital Simulation Engineer. Want to know more about this exciting opportunity then click the link below. #jobalert #researchofficer #DigitalSimulation #opportunity

New setup looking great 👍🏻 Looking forward to reading some of the analysis and write ups 🍷

We utilise a range of imaging sensors & deep learning modelling techniques to enable automated identification & quantification of plant parts during the growth stage. Check out LinkedIn for more - bit.ly/3YDICCZ #Blueberries #Avocado #DiseaseDetection

Great presentations and discussion at the Postharvest sessions at #NZPSC2023 this morning. Well done to all our student presenters from SF&AT Massey University for sharing their work on controlled atmosphere, non-destructive measurements and cooling patterns in shipping containers etc.

A nice keynote discussing the current state of the art employing a range of spetral-optical techniques to analyze fruit parameters by Manuela Zude-Sasse Hort Lab zooming in from Germany at #PSC2023 conference!

I had the honour of chairing this keynote session. Fascinating work and great data sets. Thanks again Manuela for sharing your work at #NZPSC2023

The ISHS postharvest symposium is in New Zealand in November 2024. If you want to speak about your exciting science, technology or solution that assists in maintaining fresh produce quality, then submit an abstract for consideration. scienceevents.co.nz/postharvest202…