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

我们的工业前可行性研究是一种多学科方法，采用新型生物材料工程技术和先进的分子和激素分析技术，为生菜种子引发过程的诊断，管理和进一步改进提供创新和可持续的解决方案。Germains Seed Technology（诺福克）和伦敦皇家霍洛威大学（RHUL，Leubner/Steinbrecher）的种子科学实验室之间的合作拥有知识和专业知识，可以采用定制的领先生物力学设备，新颖的成像和超越最先进水平的种子激素分析，以探索其作为诊断工具的潜力，以监测和进一步改善生菜引发过程。Germains为英国和欧洲市场提供生菜种子引发，因为它提供快速和均匀的发芽，以及坚固和均匀的生菜幼苗，以确保即使在压力环境下也能提高初级叶菜沙拉作物的产量。种子引发被种子技术公司用于提高耕地和园艺食品生产，对于生菜等蔬菜种子尤其重要。这是一种强有力的种子加工方法，可提高主要作物生产所用种子的质量。引发的种子提供快速和均匀的发芽，即使在压力环境中也能建立旺盛的幼苗。由于热抑制和光抑制，莴苣和其他叶菜种子特别容易受到高温和黑暗的影响，这可能发生在幼苗生产环境中。专业的植物饲养者有一项非常重要的工作，那就是将沙拉种子培育成健壮的幼苗，这在英国是在大型温控温室（能源成本）中实现的。这是统一和健壮的这些幼苗交给英国沙拉作物种植者这是现代叶沙拉主要作物生产的基石。种子引发消除了热抑制和光抑制，并确保快速和均匀建立健壮的生菜幼苗，从而可以直接影响英国叶菜沙拉初级生产的均匀性和产量。Germains Seed Technology（Kings林恩，诺福克，www.germains.com）为客户准备生菜种子，并为英国和欧洲市场提供特定的产品。它与其他种子技术公司竞争最好的引发产品，没有知识和技术来进一步改进和监测其生菜引发方案。要做到这一点，就需要对引发过程的基本机制和创新的新技术进行根本性的洞察，以进一步改善它，超越Germains及其竞争对手已经取得的成就。因此，Germains希望与著名的英国种子科学实验室G Leubner教授和T Steinbrecher博士（皇家霍洛威伦敦大学，RHUL，www.seedbiology.eu）进行一项工业前研究可行性研究，以探索和评估使用生物材料包埋和种子激素分析的新技术作为监测和进一步改善莴苣种子引发过程的诊断工具的潜力。在RHUL和Germains之间的多学科合作中，我们希望产生研究证据并评估这些技术是否适合作为诊断工具，以进一步改善莴苣种子引发。

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.