Field Trials

• Cultivation technique trials (medicinal plants, plants with added value, etc)
• New technology evaluation
• New product evaluation (performance trials)
• Cultivar trials
• Fertilizer performance trials
• Herbicide trials
• Fungicide trials
• Demonstration plots
• Greenhouses or growth chamber trials
• Seed germination assays
• Toxicity studies on seeds
• Toxicity studies on seedlings

Product registration

Our team can take charge of your project such as    in    the    planning,    experimental    design preparation, treatment applications, trial follow-ups, data collection, harvest, sample analysis preparation, data and report analysis or assist you  in  one  or more  of the projects steps, whether in or outside the Centre's facilities.

To conduct your projects with security  and confidentiality,  a  professional and competent team is at your service

Soil

• Sample preparation (drying, sieving 2 mm)
• pH (water)
• pH (buffer)
• Conductivity (soluble salts)
• Texture, granulometry (% sand, silt, clay)
• Complete mineral analysis upon request

Plants

• Sample preparation (drying, grinding)
• Dry matter
• Grain humidity content
• Complete mineral analysis upon request

Microbiology

• Growth measurement
• Growth inhibition assay
• Competition assay
• Isolation and characterization upon request

Other

• Freeze drying of different products
• Humidity content on different materials
• Mycorrhizal root colonization
• Mycorrhizal fungal viability

Greenhouses

• 6 units with table area of 20 sq. m. (215 sq. ft.)
• Supplemental  lighting,  high  pressure sodium lamps
• CO2 atmosphere enrichment system
• Drip irrigation system available
• Fertigation available
• Computer controlled environment

Environmentally controlled growth cabinets

• 1 unit of 9.21 sq. m. (99 sq. ft.)
• 1 unit of 3.37 sq. m. (36 sq. ft.)
• 2 units of 3.25 sq. m.  (34,7 sq.ft.)
• 1 unit of 1.40 sq. m. (15 sq.ft.)
• 2 units with shelves of 0.45 sq. m.  (4.8 sq. ft.)
• 1 unit with shelves of 0.35 sq. m. (3.78 sq. ft.)

Humidity controlled cold rooms

• 1 unit of 10.4 sq. m. (112 sq. ft.) (-8° to io°c, es-95% hr)
• 1 unit of 10.4 sq. m. (112 sq. ft.) (-20° to io-c, 30-50% hrj
• 1 unit of 9.5 sq. m. (103 sq. ft.) (-2° to io°c, 30-70% hr)
• 1 unit of 9.4 sq. m. (101.5 sq. ft.) <o° to io°c, 20-70% hr)

Laminar Flow Hoods

• Asceptic environment for controlled sterile manipulations