13TSB_ACT Novel biomaterial engineering technologies, molecular and hormone analyses to improve lettuce seed priming and production in stressful envir

13TSB_ACT 新型生物材料工程技术、分子和激素分析，以改善压力环境下生菜种子的引发和生产

基本信息

批准号：
BB/M005186/1
负责人：
Gerhard Leubner
金额：
$ 24.16万
依托单位：
Royal Holloway University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FM005186%2F1
关键词：
13TSB_ACT Novel biomaterial engineering technologies

项目摘要

Our pre-industrial feasibility study is a multi-disciplinary approach with novel biomaterial engineering technologies and advanced molecular and hormone analytic techniques to provide innovative and sustainable solutions for the diagnostics, management, and further improvement of the lettuce seed priming process. The collaboration between Germains Seed Technology (Norfolk) and the seed science lab at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL, Leubner/Steinbrecher) have the knowledge and expertise to employ a custom-built leading-edge biomechanical device, novel imaging and beyond-state-of-the art seed hormone analytics to explore their potential as diagnostic tools to monitor and further improve the lettuce priming process. Germains offers lettuce seed priming to the UK and European market as it provides fast and uniform germination, and sturdy and uniform lettuce seedlings to ensure improved primary leafy salad crop production even in stressful environments. Seed priming is used by seed technology companies to enhance arable and horticultural food production and is especially important for vegetable seeds like lettuce. It is a powerful seed processing methodology to enhance the quality of the seed sown for primary crop production. Primed seed provides fast and uniform germination, and vigorous seedling etablishment even in stressful environments. Due to thermo- and photo-inhibition lettuce and other leafy salad seeds are especially prone to high temperatures and darkness which may occur in the seedling production environment. Specialist plant raisers have the all-important job of growing salad seeds into sturdy seedlings and this is achieved in large temperature-controlled greenhouses (energy costs) in the UK. It is the uniformity and sturdiness of these seedlings handed over to UK salad crop growers which are the cornerstone of modern leafy salad primary crop production. Seed priming alleviates thermo- and photo-inhibition and ensures rapid and uniform establishment of sturdy lettuce seedlings and thereby can directly affect the uniformity and yield of UK leafy salad primary production. Germains Seed Technology (Kings Lynn, Norfolk, www.germains.com) primes lettuce seeds for customers and offers specific priming processes as products to the UK and European market. It competes with other seed technology companies for the best priming product and does not have the knowledge and technologies to further improve and monitor its lettuce priming protocol. To do this would require fundamental insight into the mechanisms underlying the priming process and innovative novel technologies to further improve it beyond what has already been achieved by Germains and its competitors. Germains therefore wants to conduct a pre-industrial research feasibility study with the renowned UK seed science lab of Prof G Leubner and Dr T Steinbrecher (Royal Holloway University of London, RHUL, www.seedbiology.eu) to explore and evaluate the potential of using their novel technologies of biomaterial enineering and seed hormone analytics as diagnostic tools for monitoring and further improving the lettuce seed priming process. In a multi-disciplinary collaboration between RHUL and Germains, we wish to generate research evidence and evaluate if these technologies are suited as diagnostic tools to further improve lettuce seed priming.

我们的工业前的可行性研究是一种多学科的方法，采用了新型的生物材料工程技术以及先进的分子和激素分析技术，可为诊断，管理和进一步改善生菜种子启动过程提供创新和可持续的解决方案。伦敦皇家Holloway大学（Rhul，Leubner/Steinbrecher）的Germains Seed Technology（Norfolk）与种子科学实验室之间的合作具有知识和专业知识，可以采用定制的前沿生物力学设备，新颖的生物力学设备，新颖的成像和超越状态的现成的艺术种子荷尔蒙分析，以探索其潜在的诊断工具，以诊断其诊断工具，并改善该工具的方法，并进行了启动的工具。 Germain提供了生菜种子启动到英国和欧洲市场，因为它提供了快速，均匀的发芽，以及坚固而均匀的生菜幼苗，以确保即使在压力大的环境中，也可以确保改善原发性叶状色拉作物的生产。种子技术公司使用种子启动来增强可耕种和园艺食品生产，对于像生菜这样的蔬菜种子尤其重要。这是一种强大的种子加工方法，可以提高原发性作物生产的种子质量。底漆的种子即使在压力的环境中也可以快速而均匀的发芽和剧烈的幼苗估计。由于热和抑制作用的生菜和其他多叶的沙拉种子特别容易出现在幼苗生产环境中的高温和黑暗。专业的植物提升者在将沙拉种子种植成坚固的幼苗中具有最重要的工作，这在英国温度控制的温室（能源成本）中实现。这些幼苗交给了英国沙拉农作物种植者的统一性和坚固性，这是现代绿叶沙拉初级作物生产的基石。种子启动减轻热和抑制作用，并确保快速，均匀的生菜幼苗的建立，从而直接影响英国绿叶叶的一级生产的均匀性和产量。 Germains Seed Technology（Kings Lynn，Norfolk，www.germains.com）为客户提供生菜种子，并为英国和欧洲市场提供特定的启动过程。它与其他种子技术公司竞争最佳启动产品，并且没有知识和技术来进一步改善和监视其生菜启动方案。为此，将需要对启动过程和创新的新技术的基本机制的基本见解，以进一步将其改进超越Germains及其竞争对手已经实现的目标。因此，种系希望通过著名的英国种子科学实验室和T Steinbrecher博士（伦敦皇家Holloway University，Rhul，Rhul，www.seedbiology.eu）进行著名的英国种子科学实验室进行一项工业前研究可行性研究，以探索和评估使用其新颖的生物材料启动和播种工具的新颖技术的潜力，以便将其用于诊断和诊断工具。在Rhul和Germain之间的多学科合作中，我们希望生成研究证据，并评估这些技术是否适合作为诊断工具，以进一步改善生菜种子启动。