Agriculture and environmental
Agriculture and environmental
Advancing agriculture and environmental solutions
Bioprocess technology plays a critical role by supporting both the agriculture and environmental sectors. Within agriculture, it enables the production of eco-friendly biofertilizers and biopesticides, while facilitating advancements in crop breeding through plant cell culture techniques. In the environmental sector, bioprocess technology aids in monitoring and remediating polluted sites, contributing to sustainable bioproduction practices that help preserve ecosystems. Its versatility and eco-friendly applications make bioprocess technology a key player in promoting agricultural sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Agriculture and environmental challenges
Sustainability
Addressing the crucial challenge of balancing agricultural productivity with environmental conservation is paramount. Agriculture's demands often strain vital resources like water and soil, resulting in degradation and biodiversity decline. Concurrently, pollution and climate change in the environmental sphere pose imminent threats to ecosystems and human well-being.
Resource efficiency
Agriculture demands extensive quantities of water, energy, and land, leading to inefficiencies and resource depletion. Likewise, environmental remediation endeavors often consume significant resources and time, necessitating efficient solutions to streamline resource utilization.
Data management and analysis
Both the agriculture and environmental sectors generate vast amounts of data from various sources, posing a challenge in managing and analyzing it effectively to inform decision-making. This data is crucial for continuous monitoring of key process parameters in agricultural and environmental settings, ensuring optimal conditions for desired outcomes.
Sustainability
Addressing the crucial challenge of balancing agricultural productivity with environmental conservation is paramount. Agriculture's demands often strain vital resources like water and soil, resulting in degradation and biodiversity decline. Concurrently, pollution and climate change in the environmental sphere pose imminent threats to ecosystems and human well-being.
Resource efficiency
Agriculture demands extensive quantities of water, energy, and land, leading to inefficiencies and resource depletion. Likewise, environmental remediation endeavors often consume significant resources and time, necessitating efficient solutions to streamline resource utilization.
Data management and analysis
Both the agriculture and environmental sectors generate vast amounts of data from various sources, posing a challenge in managing and analyzing it effectively to inform decision-making. This data is crucial for continuous monitoring of key process parameters in agricultural and environmental settings, ensuring optimal conditions for desired outcomes.
Agriculture and environmental product offerings
INFORS HT specializes in bioprocess equipment and automation for the agriculture and environmental industries, featuring advanced bioreactors, incubator shakers, and bioprocess software. Our solutions are designed to optimize growth conditions while promoting environmental stewardship and operational efficiency through enhanced resource management.
Incubator shakers
Boost your agricultural and environmental research endeavors with INFORS HT's cutting-edge incubator shakers. Crafted for top-notch performance and resource efficiency, these shakers maximize space utilization while maintaining exact temperature control. Achieve reliable and reproducible outcomes, thereby establishing excellence in growth condition management.
Bioreactors
Discover innovative advancements in bioprocessing with INFORS HT bioreactors. Our state-of-the-art technology provides improved precision, scalability, and control, amplifying your research productivity. Explore how our bioreactors empower you to attain exceptional results in your agricultural and environmental bioprocess applications, while optimizing sustainability, resource efficiency, and data management.
Bioprocess platform software
Seamlessly incorporate advanced monitoring and control features into cultivation systems with INFORS HT eve® bioprocess platform software. Our cutting-edge software offers real-time evaluation of vital culture parameters. Harnessing the power of online sensors and intelligent automation, optimize growth conditions and process stability, transforms bioprocess operations within agriculture and environmental science industries.
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See allResearchers at the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, BOKU University in Austria developed a sustainable method to recycle blended wool-polyester textile waste using enzymatic hydrolysis followed by microbial valorization. Using the INFORS HT Multitron Standard incubator shaker, they cultivated Chlorella vulgaris and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa on recovered wool hydrolysates, producing valuable bioproducts including natural pigments and lipids. This innovative process transforms textile waste into renewable resources for dyes and biofuels, supporting the circular bioeconomy.
This study demonstrates how vine shoot waste, an underutilized agricultural byproduct, can be transformed into fermentable sugars using choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvents (DESs). Researchers evaluated two DES formulations and found that ChCl:lactic acid (1:5) pretreatment significantly enhanced carbohydrate conversion, achieving rates of up to 75.2% for cellulose and 99.9% for xylan. Enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated biomass was performed in the INFORS HT Minitron incubator shaker, enabling controlled saccharification. The results support a greener, efficient approach to biomass fractionation and lignin recovery, with strong potential for sustainable bioprocessing and agricultural waste valorization.
Researchers have sequenced and characterized a novel thermophilic cyanobacterium isolated from a hot spring in Namibia, revealing how it adapts to extreme heat through temperature responsive protein expression. Cultivated using the INFORS HT Labfors bench-top bioreactor, the strain proposed to represent a new genus within the Thermosynechococcaceae family displayed distinct genomic and proteomic features linked to thermotolerance. These findings expand our understanding of extremophile adaptation and highlight promising targets for future bioengineering and high temperature biotechnological applications.
Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, BOKU University in Austria developed a sustainable method to recycle blended wool-polyester textile waste using enzymatic hydrolysis followed by microbial valorization. Using the INFORS HT Multitron Standard incubator shaker, they cultivated Chlorella vulgaris and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa on recovered wool hydrolysates, producing valuable bioproducts including natural pigments and lipids. This innovative process transforms textile waste into renewable resources for dyes and biofuels, supporting the circular bioeconomy.
This study demonstrates how vine shoot waste, an underutilized agricultural byproduct, can be transformed into fermentable sugars using choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvents (DESs). Researchers evaluated two DES formulations and found that ChCl:lactic acid (1:5) pretreatment significantly enhanced carbohydrate conversion, achieving rates of up to 75.2% for cellulose and 99.9% for xylan. Enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated biomass was performed in the INFORS HT Minitron incubator shaker, enabling controlled saccharification. The results support a greener, efficient approach to biomass fractionation and lignin recovery, with strong potential for sustainable bioprocessing and agricultural waste valorization.
Researchers have sequenced and characterized a novel thermophilic cyanobacterium isolated from a hot spring in Namibia, revealing how it adapts to extreme heat through temperature responsive protein expression. Cultivated using the INFORS HT Labfors bench-top bioreactor, the strain proposed to represent a new genus within the Thermosynechococcaceae family displayed distinct genomic and proteomic features linked to thermotolerance. These findings expand our understanding of extremophile adaptation and highlight promising targets for future bioengineering and high temperature biotechnological applications.