Green House Trials Conducted at Leading Universities

Verify product performance and establish product mode of action with our independent greenhouse trials. Located in Albany, California, and affiliated with major Universities (including UC Berkeley), our greenhouse is well suited for research and yield analysis. If you are interested in determining how your product works on soil or directly on plants, we perform microbiome profiling in soil, in roots and on leaves. Direct action of fertilizers on crops can be studied through plant gene expression studies, nutrient uptake, drought or other stress assays, and biochemical analysis. Independent research is performed to establish product claims through peer-reviewed scientific publications. All studies are undertaken to optimize product success and sustainability in agricultural applications.

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We offer a range of services to benefit product manufacturers, farmers, conservationists and consumers. We conduct research on products in the agricultural market, we build sustainable products to enrich soil, we have a program that monitors trees and shrubs from satellites – allowing us to track deforestation and disease on a large scale. Our goal is to continue to bring innovation and sustainability to our agricultural market and find ways to continue to protect our environment and the way we, as humans, use it. We are proud to work within top universities, collaborating with some of the greatest minds in bio-technology.

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PRECISION CONTROLLED GROWTH ENVIRONMENTS

We have conducted and published a multitude of studies focused on studying products applied in controlled greenhouse environments. The computer-controlled precision growth chambers and greenhouses at our facilities feature automated light, temperature and humidity controls. The facility places an emphasis on advanced bio-containment and precision delivery of water and nutrients, while maintaining the highest standards of limited pesticide inputs, all contributing to our ability to continually publish the studies we preform in this location.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE GREENHOUSE

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These studies are preformed and maintained by our Chief Scientist, Dr. Rajnish Khanna, Greenhouse Staff and our intern I-Cultiver Scientists. We take pride in the educational program surrounding these studies that allows young scientists to work alongside academic professionals to complete these incredible studies and publish the findings.

FACILITY INFORMATION

The headhouse (main building) is gross square feet. Four separate greenhouse ranges extend off the headhouse with a total area of _ gross square feet under glass. The building includes an additional ___ square feet of support space for teaching, research labs, growth chambers and meeting room. Separated rooms allow for differences in lighting, watering schedules, nutrient applications and pesticide use depending on the needs for each individual study. Each study reserves its own space within the greenhouse, and specialized training is provided for the individual scientist and assistants conducting the study.

The entire greenhouse facility is accessible by key-card only, as is each individual greenhouse room. This ensures each study is safe and uncomprimised from start to finish.

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

Independent customizable studies based on specific PRODUCT needs. We utilize both greenhouse and outdoor field trials to conduct research. Our research is primarily conducted in the California Bay Area at two separate locations, but we collaborate with a multitude of professionals in this field for each study. Our collaborations include faculty, academics and researchers from Carnegie, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Arizona State University, Contra Costa College and USDA. In collaboration with these individuals, our scientists and intern scientists are able to fully customize each individual study and conduct it in a way that we can create published works from these trials.

MICROBIOME PROFILING SERVICES

Microbial (bacterial) communities established inside, around and on plants greatly influence crop growth and yield outcome. The goal of this study is to determine if PRODUCT application alters the microbiome in soil, in rhizosphere (surface of roots), and endosphere (inside the roots). The community structure of microbiome can reveal how the PRODUCT works.

SOIL AND CROP HEALTH ANALYSIS

DROUGHT STRESS

Availability of water for agriculture is becoming limited. Future of food production will need to rely on water use efficiency and increased tolerance to drought stress. The drought stress assay is custom designed based upon the timing of the treatment and the drought stress. The assay is performed under controlled greenhouse conditions using precise watering through drip irrigation. The drought stress plants receive 1/4th of the regular water, and will be compared in performance between untreated and PRODUCT treated plants. Other assays, such as microbiome profiling or gene expression can be combined with this assay to get a deeper understanding of how PRODUCT may provide drought stress tolerance.

NUTRIENT UPTAKE ANALYSIS

Plant growth and development is dependent on nutrient uptake, including macronutrients (NPK), micronutrients, and other rare elements available in healthy soils. This study is designed to assess the effect of treatment such as PRODUCT on nutrient assimilation into the plant, including roots, leaves and fruit. These studies can provide a better understanding of mode of action and how the plant responds in increasing nutrient uptake.

MODE OF ACTION TRIALS / SEEDLING PHOTOMORPHOGENISIS ASSAY

Comparison of CONTROL (untreated) and the PRODUCT (treatment) conditions will reveal the direct impacts that the PRODUCT has on growth and development, which can describe the mode of action. The effects can vary between dark and different light colors. Since majority of the genes that regulate growth under these conditions are well described, this assay has a good potential in describing some of the specific genetic and biochemical pathways that your PRODUCT may regulate to promote overall plant growth and development. These assays can inform about how the PRODUCT influences these pathways throughout the plant’s life. Generally, these assays are followed by whole gene expression analysis, by extracting mRNA (expressed genes) and profiling the specific genes whose expression was modulated by the PRODUCT.

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A Consortium of Scientific and Academic Professionals

Everything we do is deeply interconnected with learning and growth, allowing us to work with educators and trainer, and employ student interns to prepare our next generation of biotechnology scientists.
We work with the top minds in the bio-technology field, conducting research at leading US Universities. Our broad scope of collaborators allows us to dig deep into each case study we examine. We continue to take on a broad range of products for research and development, as we learn more about each of these products, we are better able to help these companies create sustainable products for our agriculture industry, worldwide.
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