SynTech Research provides a range of special laboratory and field services alongside its core offerings of studies for Bioefficacy, Environmental Fate and Effects, Public Health, Seeds  and Consultancy

These require critical laboratory and/or field facilities and expertise, developed within SynTech’s teams and employing industry-standard or purpose-built equipment.

Bioefficacy and product performance (including GEP compliance)

Soil treatment plots, Sanger, California

Nematicide evaluations, Spain

• Laboratory assays
  • Screening
  • Mode of action

• Field screens including microplots
  • Rate and formulation comparisons
  • Herbicide, fungicide, crop/variety type

• Nematode trials
  • Glasshouse and field crops
  • Chemigation, spray and granule applications

• Soil treatments
  • Fertilizers and pesticides
  • Irrigation applications

• Product properties
  • Rainfastness (field and controlled environment)
  • Vapour effects

• Resistance monitoring
  • Laboratory and field

Fate and effects: pre-harvest services (including GLP compliance)

Dislodgeable foliar residues, hole punch sampling, Sanger, California

Soil sampling, Valencia, Spain

• Soil accumulation/dissipation
  • Short-term single soil-type, shallow samples
  • Long-term studies, range of soils, 1m samples

• Crop rotation
  • Multi-crop
  • Coordinated sites and timings

• Non target crop studies
  • Laboratory and glasshouse
  • Field

• Dislodgeable foliar residues
  • Hole-punch sampling
  • Whole leaf sampling

• Exposure trials
  • Operator
  • Bystander and Worker

Fate and effects: post-harvest services (including GLP compliance)

Vinification laboratory, Alba, Italy

Homogenisation, Valencia, Spain

• Crop sample handling
  • Sub-sampling
  • Homogenisation
  • Analysis sample preparation

• Processing phase
  • Desiccation, concentrates and juice
  • Vinification
  • Oil production

• Yield and quality evaluations.
  • Solids, starch, acidity, minerals, physiology
  • Yield, size, weight, firmness and color
  • Pre- and post-cold storage assessment

A copy of the Specialist study services brochure can be downloaded here