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

我们的产业化前可行性研究是一个多学科的方法，采用新的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种子科学实验室(RHUL，Leubner/Steinbrecher)的合作拥有知识和专业知识，采用定制的尖端生物机械设备、新颖的成像和最先进的种子激素分析，探索它们作为诊断工具的潜力，以监测和进一步改进生菜引发过程。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萌发，以及健壮和统一的生菜幼苗，以确保即使在紧张的环境中也能提高初级叶沙拉作物的产量。种子技术公司使用种子引发来提高可耕种和园艺食品的产量，对生菜等蔬菜种子尤其重要。这是一种有效的种子加工方法，可以提高用于初级作物生产的种子的质量。即使在紧张的环境中，引发的种子也能提供快速而均匀的萌发和旺盛的幼苗建立。由于温度和光抑制，生菜和其他多叶沙拉种子特别容易受到高温和黑暗的影响，这可能发生在苗木生产环境中。专业植物饲养员的重要工作是将沙拉种子培育成健壮的幼苗，这一点在英国的大型温控温室中实现(能源成本)。正是这些交付给英国沙拉作物种植者的苗木的一致性和健壮性，才是现代多叶沙拉初级作物生产的基石。种子引发缓解了温度和光抑制，确保了生菜壮苗的快速而均匀的建立，从而直接影响英国叶菜沙拉初级生产的整齐度和产量。Germains Seed Technology(Kings Lynn，Norfork，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种子引发工艺。它与其他种子技术公司争夺最好的引发产品，而没有进一步改进和监控其生菜引发方案的知识和技术。要做到这一点，需要对启动过程背后的机制有根本性的了解，并需要创新的新技术来进一步改进它，使之超越日耳曼及其竞争对手已经取得的成就。因此，Germains希望与G Leubner教授和T Steinbrecher博士(伦敦皇家霍洛威大学，RHUL，www.seed biology.eu)的著名英国种子科学实验室一起进行一项产业化前研究的可行性研究，以探索和评估将他们的生物材料工程和种子激素分析新技术用作监测和进一步改进生菜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进一步改进生菜种子引发的诊断工具。

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.