The initial phases of research are critical to ensure a successful development of a product and strategic market positioning.
Identify promising concepts early through formulation and regulatory screening, modeling, and expert insights—minimizing risk and ensuring innovation efforts focus on viable, compliant product opportunities from the start.
Validate product potential with expert-guided testing in labs, greenhouses, and fields—ensuring performance, safety, and regulatory alignment before advancing to full-scale development.
*Minimum Viable Product
Our Technical Solutions will help you characterizing and positioning your product. Our commitment is to provide accurate, reliable, and innovative services to meet the diverse needs of the Agroscience sector.
To visualize your product performance in action, we offer a range of technologies for plant and root imaging. They allow to demonstrate product benefits at various scales.
Our highly skilled teams provide a combination of seed care tests to guarantee delivery of high-quality treated seeds. We ensure fast result turnaround time ensuring prompt decision-making.
Seed loading analysis to verify the accurate dosage applied to the seed, ensuring it is neither under-dosed nor over-dosed
Heubach testing (dust-off) in accordance with the ESTA method
Germination testing conducted following the International Rules for Seed Testing 2019 (ISTA), providing comprehensive seed viability information
Our seed care services include seed treatment for batches ranging from 100g to 5kg / 6L with a choice of Hege, Satec and Niklas equipment, as well as dispatch to field sites. We also conduct field and pot studies to evaluate the efficacy and safety of seed treatments under GEP and GLP standards.
Evaluate the rainfastness of your formulations across a range of climatic conditions.
Our rainfall simulators are purpose built to satisfy the requirements for both rainfastness experiments (GEP) and foliar wash-off studies (GLP). They are designed to simulate natural rainfall events from 2mm/hr to 25mm/hr, whilst our state of the art laser detection system allows real-time recording of rain intensity, droplet size and velocity during the rain event.
In GEP rainfastness studies, standard assessments are performed following product application and rain events. In GLP wash-off studies, the residue remaining on the plant can be determined by our laboratories. The data generated can be used to determine the wash off factor, used to model the environmental concentrations of a residue in the soil or ground water (PECsoil and PECgw).
Test your chemical and microbial formulations of pesticides, fertilizers, biostimulants and other products. Physical compatibility testing is a basic requirement to support the inclusion of a recommendation for a tank mixture on a product label. Microbial formulations are also tested for biological compatibility.
We have a skilled, committed team that provide tank mix services including:
For artificial infection of screening and efficacy trials, we maintain a dozen of fully characterized pathogen species and strains collected on arable and vegetable crops from various regions at our phytopathology laboratories. Our experts bulk up spores for inoculation of field and pot trials with target disease. We can also supply seeds artificially infected with seed borne disease for your experiments.
Field and laboratory based services to predict and monitor the emergence and spread of resistant pest strains.
Located in a vast number of major agricultural regions, our field staff can collect pest colonies, weed seeds and disease strains for sensitivity testing at your own facility or at one of our laboratories.
Our expert teams can establish sensitivity to your products using standard methods or developing a suitable methodology where necessary, for post-registration monitoring or to study the baseline of sensitivity for new active substance.
All monitoring campaigns are carefully planned and we provide scientific guidance about sampling methods and representative areas for each crop and target, to optimize the number and geographical spread of sites.
Detection, identification and quantification of a wide range of pest and disease species in plants and soil, based on morphology examination, microscopy, real-time PCR, ELISA and other techniques.
Our expert teams are using standard methods or developing a suitable methodology where necessary, for instance for quantification of latent / low level of diseases.
To detect and quantify non-conventional substances, our GLP laboratory performs residue analysis of products using a range of alternative techniques including ELISA, SDS-PAGE, western blotting and bio-assays. We also offer GLP compliant detection of GM traits in seeds and plants.
