Fruit production and trade is pre-eminently a world market. The chains are often long because produce is stored for a long period of time or has to be exported across long distances.

Fruit is tasty and healthy and valued highly by consumers. The requirements set for the quality of apples or other types of fruit are becoming higher and higher. The modern fruit grower and fruit trader is fully aware of this and is responding by continuously monitoring the quality of the produce using the latest methods. NSure assays are helping this. They allow fruit ripening to be monitored and predict the optimum moment for harvesting. Specific storage problems can already be planned for at harvest time. Harvest planning, storage and sales can be geared to the quality of the product. This increases efficiency, lowers costs, reduces losses and ultimately results in fruit of optimum quality on the shop shelves.

Whether it’s about developing the natural environment or timber production, hundreds of millions of seedlings are required each year to maintain and to expand woodland. 

The quality of the young trees is a determining factor for planting success. In remote areas, specifically, a high planting success rate is vital and that the trees actively start to grow. Forestry nurseries therefore devote a great deal of attention to the biological quality and vitality of their products. An important phase in this is hardening off the seedlings in the winter and over-wintering in cold-stores until planting out during the next planting season. NSure assays can provide decision-making support with regard to uprooting and storage and to determine the cold tolerance and vitality of the seedlings. This makes logistic decisions easier and guarantees you seedlings with optimum growth potential. 

Flowers play a role at all the important events in our lives and also contribute to our normal day-to-day sense of well-being. The production of and trade in ornamental plants is also a very important economic factor. 

The trade value of ornamental plants amounts to around 60 billion dollars per annum. Transport distances, by container ship or by air freight, are often long and the product is vulnerable. Quality control is therefore of major importance in each link of the chain. NSure assays provide greater control of the fragile quality of ornamental products, for example by predicting the vase life or the sensitivity to fungal diseases.

Vegetables and potatoes are an essential part of our diet: fresh or in the form of processed products such as fries, tomato sauce or cut vegetables. 

Every ultimate use has its own special product requirements. It is therefore important to have a good understanding of the condition of the produce before making a decision about the sales market or next link in the chain. Furthermore, the health value and the taste are closely linked to the biological quality of the fresh produce. NSure develops assays for the grower, trade and processing industry that allow the quality to be monitored accurately and even predicted. Chain decisions can therefore be based on accurate information about the batch quality.