L-05AccreditedAnalyses for third parties
Laboratory for Tobacco and Tobacco Products
Seed and crop production
Laboratory
Laboratory for Seed Processing and Testing
The laboratory is used for post-harvest handling, threshing, cleaning, separation, counting, packing, preparation for sowing, germination testing and basic evaluation of seed material for laboratory analyses, field trials, controlled experiments, conservation, regeneration and exchange.
- Institute
- Institute of Plant Production
- Field
- Seed and crop production, Genetics and biotechnology
Analyses
- threshing of harvested plant material
- seed cleaning and separation
- preparing uniform seed lots
- seed counting
- measuring and organising samples
- packing, sealing, labelling and coding of seed lots
- preparing seed material for laboratory analyses
- preparing seed material for field trials, greenhouse experiments, polytunnel experiments and studies under controlled conditions
- preparing seed material for regeneration, multiplication, conservation and exchange
- germination testing
- assessment of germination percentage
- assessment of germination energy
- evaluation of seedling uniformity and early development
- monitoring seed viability and longevity
- preparing seed samples for storage in refrigerators, freezers or other conservation conditions
- preparing seed samples for testing responses to biotic and abiotic stress
- comparison of seed germination and performance in indigenous populations, local varieties, commercial varieties, breeding lines, mutant lines, wild relatives and conserved samples
- handling and evaluation of mutant seed material
- supporting mutation breeding through the preparation, sowing, organisation and evaluation of mutant generations
- preparing, counting and organising seed material for precision sowing and uniform set-up of experimental trials
- preparing historical or archaeological seed samples for morphological, microscopic, molecular or quality analysis where the condition of the sample allows it
- supporting the seed sector, plant breeding, mutation breeding, conservation, regeneration and experimental field work
Laboratory for Cereal Grain and Flour Quality
Seed and crop production, Food and beverages
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics
Genetics and biotechnology
Laboratory of Plant Tissue Culture
Genetics and biotechnology