Elsoms Seeds Limited

**SECURESeed II: Scaling Sustainable Seed Coatings for Field Trials** is a critical project aimed at addressing the urgent need for sustainable plant protection products. This highly innovative project is focused on improving the performance of **Plant Beneficial Microbes (PBMs)** through advanced seed coating technology using 100% plastic free, natural a...

Over the next 25 years, agricultural productivity in the UK must increase by almost as much as it has over the previous 50 if it is to keep pace with the world's increasing demand for food. But it has plateaued. Meanwhile climate change demands reductions in agricultural GHG emissions, threatens food security, its nutritional quality and the distribution ...

This project will establish a **Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping** (**CH Cx3**). The diverse team will work together on a selected set of four crop groups (already known to be associated with high carbon-capture potential). The team will ensure Project outcomes and outputs will be made available to farmers and government via a central knowledge hub...

Seed stocks of trees are often low and yet the demand for seeds and young trees is growing, with governments seeing trees as a way of cutting carbon emissions to net zero. This project combines Cranfield's scientific expertise on seed physiology and soil science with Elsoms state-of-the-art facilities and know-how on seed treatments to develop processes t...

To develop more efficient bulk seed storage processes and seed 'health' monitoring capabilities by fully understanding what influences the quality, germination and vigour of seeds.

Seed priming is conducted by seed technology companies improve the quality of vegetable seeds including lettuce. Primed lettuce seeds provide alleviated dormancy, fast and uniform germination, followed by sturdy and uniform seedlings to ensure improved primary leafy salad crop production even in stressful environments. In this multi-disciplinary collabora...

To establish protocols to collect, identify and store pathogens which cause vegetable and herb crop diseases and use them to improve plant resistance breeding programmes.

The UK has been slow to exploit the expertise available in other disciplines to increase its agricultural competitiveness through the introduction of technological developments to improve agronomy. Elsoms proposes to integrate the necessary technical disciplines with appropriate breeding strategies and understanding of pathology symptoms to rapidly valida...

This project aims to develop seed treatment technologies using Biological Control Agents (BCA’s) for the control of seed-borne diseases of vegetables. Primarily looking at neck rot disease in onions and canker in parsnip, it addresses an urgent need for alternative seed treatments at a time when there are a diminishing number of conventional pesticides av...