LABORATORY

The Archive

Our instruments, your insight.

CAPABILITIES

Instrumentation

DNA sequencing equipment in the rhizologic laboratory
METAGENOMIC SEQUENCING

Reading the soil microbiome — bacterial and fungal communities characterised at gene-level resolution.

  • Illumina MiSeq
  • Oxford Nanopore MinION
High-performance liquid chromatography system
CHROMATOGRAPHY

Separation and identification of bioactive compounds — secondary metabolites of agricultural and biotechnological interest.

  • HPLC
  • GC-MS
  • LC-MS/MS
Spectroscopy instruments for soil and plant analysis
SPECTROSCOPY

Non-destructive molecular analysis — spectral fingerprinting for rapid identification of soil and plant-tissue samples.

  • NMR
  • FTIR
  • UV-Vis
  • Vis-NIR
Electron and confocal microscopy suite
MICROSCOPY

Ultra-structural visualisation of mycorrhizal structures, spores and plant tissues — from morphology to elemental composition.

  • SEM
  • TEM
  • Confocal
Agricultural survey drone with multispectral camera
DRONE FLEET

Precision aerial surveying — orthomosaics, digital terrain models and 3D Gaussian Splatting capture of agricultural sites.

  • RGB Orthophoto
  • 3D Terrain Modelling
  • 3DGS Capture
  • Multispectral NDVI
Gaussian Splatting preview
IN DEVELOPMENT
COMING SOON

3D Gaussian Splatting Viewer

Explore our laboratory in photorealistic 3D. Reconstructed from LiDAR sensors and calibrated camera capture.

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