Prof. Oula Ghannoum

P2-013 Smart glass film impacts on energy use and productivity; P2-014 Smart Crop Monitoring

Professor Oula Ghannoum graduated with a BSc (Honours) in Plant Biochemistry (UNSW, 1993) and obtained her PhD in Plant Physiology (WSU, 1998). She has >20 years of research experience in plant physiology and biochemistry. In 2001, Oula was awarded the prestigious ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at RSBS, ANU, and in 2007, she was awarded an Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship at WSU. In 2010, Oula was appointed Senior Researcher at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE). She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016.

P2-014 In Progress

Automated Crop Monitoring for Protected Cropping systems

This four-year innovation project is led by WBS Project H, manufacturers of state-of-the-art LED technology for vertical farms and greenhouses, with AI and protected-cropping experts at UNSW and WSU respectively.

P2-013 Completed

Smart glass film impacts on energy use and productivity in greenhouse lettuce

Modifying the spectral performance of glasshouses by the use of 'smart glass' or retrofitted light-altering films can deliver significant increases in both production and energy and water efficiency. This project explores the efficacy of two such light-altering glasshouse films.

$3.5m project to trial prototype glasshouse films on climbing crops

A $3.5m FFSCRC project with Hort Innovation and LLEAF is trialling two greenhouse-film prototypes that have the potential to boost crop productivity, slash input costs and shrink the environmental footprint of Australia’s PC horticulture sector.

Smart glass-LLEAF project wrap-up: key findings and next steps

In the recently completed 'Smart Glass' project, scientists at Western Sydney University showed the energy-saving ability of SG ULR-80 and the yield-increasing potential of LLEAF. Next steps? To combine the strengths of both.

CRC indoor-cropping projects feature on ABC Landline

Western Sydney University scientists are trialling LLEAF P/L's new ‘light-spectra-shifting’ agricultural films on horticultural crops in a trio of CRC projects that are the focus of a recent ABC Landline segment.

Meet Zhonghua Chen: plant physiology, genomics and protected cropping expert

Western Sydney University’s Prof. Zhonghua Chen is an expert in plant physiology, plant breeding, biophysics and agronomy - and an academic mentor to Australia's next generation of crop scientists.

Meet David Tissue: crop science expert

In a career spanning decades, continents and planets, Distinguished Professor David Tissue has maintained a thirst for exploration and a desire to help crops thrive, even in the most hostile environments.

Smart Glass and LLEAF: novel spectra-shifting tech to boost energy-efficiency, crop growth and yield under cover

A new CRC project is comparing two novel light-spectra-shifting films on energy-efficiency and crop productivity in greenhouse-grown lettuce.

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