Trial Services
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
Project Management
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
Assays
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
Equipment
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