Providing services beyond the field
NIAB delivers a range of independent glasshouse services to industry and research customers via its glasshouse technical team. Crop husbandry experience in hundreds of different plant species has enabled us to deliver bespoke trials and other services, with a track record of designing and following protocols with full traceability.
NIAB Facilities
- Ability of offer a complete bespoke package from trial design, trial delivery, data collection, analysis and reporting
- Approx. 2200m2 of specialist glasshoues and plant growing facilities including spore-proof growth rooms, growth chambers, containment compartments and vernalisation areas
- Environmentally controlled glasshouses with the ability to manipulate temperature and lighting
- Various automatic irrigation systems
- Supplementary lighting intensities includes LED
- Supported by redeveloped officed and laboratories
- BREEAM award winning conference centre facilities
NIAB's glasshouse services include:
- Experimental design
- Impartial assessment
- Phenotyping
- Data handling and analysis
- Genetic resource maintenance
- Propagation including micro–propagation
- Seed production
- Additional analytical services available via NIAB LabTest
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We specialise in tailored projects supporting academic and industrial partners, including collaboration on research. Product trialling includes composts, fertilisers, crop protection products and other types of retail products. We also work on comparative growing trials for the assessment of varieties for quality and merit, phenotyping and quality control assistance such as establishing authenticity of plant material.