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New features for a phenotyping research facility under construction
New features for a phenotyping research facility under construction We are upgrading a phenotyping research facility for a customer in Asia. The customer operates a PhenoAIxpert HT system with a conveyor for plant transportation passing through a series of image acquisition cabinets. The current upgrade comprises installing [...]
Digital plant assessments – perspectives in time of partial lab closure
Digital plant assessments - perspectives in time of partial lab closure The Corona virus-related lockdown kept you off your lab, and you missed assessing your important plants? Now, it is the time to consider digital imaging technology. Let automatic camera technology collect image data even in times when [...]
Fighting insect decline – phenotyping for minimizing pesticide impact
Fighting insect decline - phenotyping for minimizing pesticide impact Insect decline is a massive problem in Europe and many other parts of the world. Loss is partly attributed to pesticide use. Thus, EU policies drive forward the demand for pesticide saving practices, such as non-chemical agents against weeds, [...]
Five reasons to use digital phenotyping when working with plants and seeds
Five reasons to use digital phenotyping when working with plants and seeds Remote work: Recent measures to prevent spreading of the Coronavirus kept many researchers away from their labs and growth rooms. With automated digital imaging technology requiring only minimum staff present on site, plant research can go [...]
New distribution partnerships established
New distribution partnerships established LemnaTec moves closer to the customers by partnering with local companies. We recently started partnerships with a company in Australia – PAS – and with one in France – Optoprim. For Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, LemnaTec GmbH is pleased to announce a [...]
Four reasons why breeders need digital phenotypic data
Four reasons why breeders need digital phenotypic data Documentation: digital images keep hold of the current state of the plants while a quoted visual impression captured by an operator is perishing and impossible to reconstruct. Standardization: Rating operators are well trained, of course, and the breeder’s eye never [...]
LemnaTec HyperAIxpert – comprehensive laboratory phenotyping system
LemnaTec HyperAIxpert – comprehensive laboratory phenotyping system With the new HyperAIxpert, the next member of the laboratory AIxpert products by LemnaTec, we take the step into automated multi-sensory phenotyping. HyperAIxpert is capable to operate hyperspectral cameras in scanning mode and therefore it is a powerful tool in [...]
3 driving forces why seeds and seed testing need to progress – and what you need for it
3 driving forces why seeds and seed testing need to progress – and what you need for it Climatechange is progressing and makes weather more stressful for plants. Global population growth and increasing qualitative expectations on food demand for more and #betterfood EU plans to reduce pesticide use [...]
New distribution partnership with Portable Analytical Solutions Pty Ltd, (PAS)
New distribution partnership with Portable Analytical Solutions Pty Ltd, (PAS) LemnaTec GmbH is pleased to announce a new distribution partnership with Portable Analytical Solutions Pty Ltd, (PAS) a leading provider of innovative scientific instruments in the Oceania Region, effective since May 2020. Juergen Kreis, Managing Director of [...]
SeedAIxpert
The fastest digital seed testing system measuring seed, germination, and seedling emergence quality. We are introducing our SeedAIxpert family! The SeedAIxpert family comprises a table-top seed testing unit and a semi-automated seed testing system, the SeedAIxpert pro. Germination assays, e.g. top-of-paper tests, or seedling emergence trials easily [...]
Meet our Sales team
We are at your service to advise you on our products. Starting with the 16th of March 2020, Dr. Jutta Gerstner joined the team as head of sales. She has an education in plant molecular biology and worked for many years in sales positions for different companies active in the [...]
PhenoAIxpert
The versatile phenotyping system for laboratories We are introducing our PhenoAIxpert family! The PhenoAIxpert family consists of three models for versatile laboratory phenotyping. They provide an entry to the phenotyping world for a broad range of applications. Just some of the highlights: Easy to use with powerful [...]
ImageAIxpert
The universal laboratory documentation imager New, upgradeable products for the professional use in laboratories We posed the questions – you gave us the answers. We asked our clients as to their wishes and their answers were explicit. In addition to existing individual solutions, the request for standardized, [...]
High performance phenotyping
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You, our customers, told us you would like to hear more about LemnaTec and we listened to it. What is coming up? 1. Your tasks in phenotyping and seed testing exceed counting and size measuring - we are going to launch a new family of intelligent expert systems that [...]
DLG-Technikertagung 2020
DLG-Technikertagung 2020 51. Fachtagung des DLG-Ausschusses „Versuchswesen in der Pflanzenproduktion“ Gemeinsam mit unserer Schwesterfirma tec5 wird LemnaTec bei der DLG-Technikertagung 2020 in Hannover, 28. & 29. Januar 202o vertreten sein. Together with our sister company tec5 LemnaTec will attend the DLG-Technikertagung in Hannover 28th and 29th of January 2020. [...]
Brassica heat and drought phenotyping
A LemnaTec Scanalyzer at work: Environmental stresses frequently occur in combination, particularly the combination of high temperatures and low water availability is common during hot weather. Such stresses negatively affect plant growth and reproduction. In Brassica crops such stresses impair pod setting and filling and research is done to strengthen [...]
We are moving – Wir ziehen um
LemnaTec is moving into a differnt building, only 500 metres from the current location. Our new address is: Nerscheider Weg 170 52076 Aachen Germany You will reach us in the new offices from 15th January 2020 on. Our new telephone number: +49-2408-98185 0 Fax number: +49-2408-98185 99 E-mail contacts [...]
LemnaTec became member of EPIC
EPIC is the industry association that promotes the sustainable development of organisations working in the field of photonics in Europe. Our members encompass the entire value chain from LED lighting, Photovoltaic solar energy, Photonics Integrated Circuits, Optical components, Lasers, Sensors, Imaging, Displays, Projectors, Optic fiber, and other photonic related technologies. [...]
LemnaTec Growscreen Rhizo – the future of root phenotyping at IPK Gatersleben
LemnaTec proudly has finished the installation of a large-scale Growscreen Rhizo system inside the Plant Cultivation Hall of IPK Gatersleben. LemnaTec delivered this unique root- and shoot- phenotyping instrument, built under the exclusive license by Forschungszentrum Jülich Root- and Shoot-Phenotyping system setup The Growscreen Rhizo consists of 360 rhizotrons [...]
Finding the right objects in an image
Digital phenotyping and digital seed testing essentially have two main parts: image acquisition and feature extraction from the image. The second part is challenging as soon as the background or surrounding is not homogeneous and if non-target objects are present that can be similar to the target objects. The [...]
Glutathione, growth, and water deficit
LemnaTec's Chief Scientist Dr. Marcus Jansen has co-authored a paper on phenotyping studies to evaluate potential links between Glutathione, growth, and sensitivity to low water availability in Arabidopsis. Before joining LemnaTec in 2014, Marcus was working at Forschungszentrum Jülich and participated in a project on water deficit responses that [...]
HTS Scanalyzer for a customer in the USA
We have built a LemnaTec HTS Scanalyzer for an American customer. The system contains visible light imaging and PAM imaging devices that can move across the sample area where samples in MTPs or potted seedlings can be placed. The successor of this system is our LemnaTec PhenoCenter, having even [...]
New LabScanalyzer for a customer in China
LabScanalyzers are not only top-down viewing, but they can also take side-views of samples, like this one we recently shipped to a Chinese customer. For instance in crop research, you can phenotype plants with top- and side-views in the LemnaTec LabScanalyzer. A version for root phenotyping is available, too. [...]
New LabScanalyzer for Korean Customer
LemnaTec LabScanalyzers are entry-level phenotyping devices that can find their place in any lab. Many applications are possible, not only phenotyping small plants such as Arabidopsis or any other type of seedling. The imaging and image processing system can also serve to analyse leaf disks, insect feeding, insect movements, [...]