Agriculture & Plant Research

Food & feedstuffs are subject to rigorous quality control processes to prevent humans and animals from potential harm. GMO is a fairly controversial issue, but can be used to improve characteristics such as disease resistance, increase yields or increase concentrations of essential vitamins.

SPEX offers a range of sample preparation equipment that allows analytical scientists to extract DNA and proteins to test samples for compliance to regulations by techniques such as PCR. Global seed companies use high throughput Geno/Grinders in their plant breeding programmes. The MiniG can also be used where throughput requirements are not as high.