Lecture ‘Seedalive meets robots: automatable seed viability rapid test‘
By Seedalive
Speaker: Jens Varnskühler
Seedalive has developed a new, efficient, and reproducible method for forecasting seed germination and vigor. Our method is a dynamic bioassay quantifying a biochemical color change correlating with seed viability. Single seeds are incubated in a reaction solution for 3-4 hours. Subsequently, by use of AI, it is easy to determine whether the seeds are vital, senescent or in fact already dead. Even dormant seeds can be evaluated.
Our test (so far established for Brassicaceae and cereals) is offered as a kit of chemicals and protocol, enabling the customer to perform the test himself.
Seedalive offers distinct advantages: Our test is automatable, non-hazardous, fast, reliable, objective, easy to perform almost everywhere and resource-conserving, saving up to 99% energy and time.
We look forward welcoming you at our presentation where we will show you the use of pipetting robots in seed viability tests.