The Nationwide Agricultural Analysis and Growth Institute (NARDI) in Fundulea, Romania, depends on digital multichannel pipettes from INTEGRA Biosciences to streamline its liquid dealing with workflows. These pipettes assist the institute’s phenotyping and genotyping laboratory to extract and analyze DNA from lots of of samples every day as a part of a scientific strategy to deal with the present challenges in agriculture, comparable to local weather change, land shortage and a lack of biodiversity.
NARDI Fundulea is acknowledged as the principle agricultural analysis heart in Romania, and has developed over 400 cultivars of area crops – together with sunflower, maize, wheat, durum wheat, barley and soybeans – in its breeding program. To help this work, the institute conducts quite a lot of genetic range and affiliation research for vital agronomic traits, together with illness resistance, warmth and stress tolerance, drought yield and high quality. The power launched its first VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette to the laboratory in 2015, and the pipettes rapidly turned an integral a part of laboratory workflows.
We examine many alternative genomic and phenotypic markers in crops that we harvest from native fields, and our outcomes assist our in-house breeders to create new plant varieties with fascinating traits. This requires us to carry out a lot of polymerase chain response (PCR) assays – in addition to extra particular forms of genotyping experiments, comparable to aggressive allele-specific PCR (KASP) assays – which contain many liquid dealing with steps. We subsequently depend on our VOYAGER pipettes – with their distinctive, motorized tip spacing adjustment – to effectively and concurrently switch a number of samples between totally different labware sizes and codecs, together with from tubes to plates.”
Daniel Cristina, researcher, genotyping and phenotyping laboratory
“We use the VOYAGER pipettes to carry out each easy liquid dealing with steps and for allotting and mixing nucleic acid samples. Lowering the variety of repetitive steps we should carry out when pipetting reduces the probability of human error, whereas pipetting a number of samples without delay improves our throughput and permits us to maintain observe of our samples extra simply. Points comparable to local weather change aren’t going away, and we plan to broaden our vary of VOYAGER pipettes as we glance to assist the agricultural business overcome these challenges sooner or later,” Daniel concluded.
