The initial phases of research are critical to ensure a successful product development and strategic market positioning.
Identify promising concepts early through formulation and regulatory screening, modelling, and expert insights — minimising risk and ensuring innovation efforts focus on viable, compliant product opportunities from the start.
Active substance/formulation screening
Identify optimal compounds and formulations early to guide product development direction.
Modelling and risk assessment
Detect compliance risks early to avoid delays and redesigns.
Regulatory screening
Predict safety and exposure outcomes to inform smarter innovation.
Expert efficacy services
Gain targeted insights to validate concept relevance and feasibility. Facilities comprise glasshouses, laboratories and growth rooms with controlled conditions suitable for in vitro and small pot experiments.
Validate product potential with expert-guided testing in laboratories, greenhouses, and fields – ensuring performance, safety, and regulatory alignment before advancing to full-scale development.
Formulation-concept selection – MVP*
Select best-performing concepts to shape a viable product.
Concept performance testing
Validate efficacy and determine optimum product positioning under real conditions to support development decisions.
Test design advisory services
Optimise trial setups for accurate, regulatory-relevant performance data.
Human exposure, toxicology and ecotoxicology
Assess safety early to support compliance and product credibility.
*Minimum Viable Product
Demonstrate your product’s performance with accurate, reliable, and innovative solutions that characterise its properties and support refined market positioning.
To visualise your product performance in action, we offer a range of technologies for plant and root imaging, demonstrating 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, as well as other Phys-Chem tests.
Germination testing conducted following the International Rules for Seed Testing 2019 (ISTA), providing comprehensive seed viability information.
Seed treatment for small batches with a choice of Hege, Satec and Niklas equipment, as well as dispatch to field sites.
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/hour to 25mm/hour, whilst our state of the art laser detection system allows for 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 to support the inclusion of a recommendation for a tank mixture on a product label.
Collection of fully characterised pathogen species and strains collected on arable and vegetable crops from various regions.
Our phytopathology experts bulk up spores for artificial infection of field and pot screening and efficacy trials with target disease. We also supply seeds 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 optimise 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.
GLP compliant techniques for residue analysis of non-conventional substances and for GM trait detection.
Our expert teams are using standard methods or developing a suitable methodology where necessary, using a range of alternative techniques including ELISA, SDS-PAGE, western blotting and bio-assays.
