Capabilities

Vertical Farming Development Centre

CHAP’s Vertical Farming Development Centre is housed at Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC), near Selby, and provides additional and complementary capabilities to STC’s existing LED4CROPS facilities. This ... View story

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Plant Phenotyping and Soil Health Facility

The CHAP Plant Phenotyping and Soil Health Facility at Cranfield University brings the latest scientific knowledge and understanding to 21^st century farming. The research conducted here is ... View story

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Digital Phenotyping Lab

CHAP’s Digital Phenotyping Lab is based at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire. Here we use cutting-edge imaging technology to automate the detection of crop pests and diseases, to assess their impact ... View story

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CropMonitor Pro

CropMonitor Pro is a state of the art sophisticated decision support platform which has been developed by Fera with Crop Health and Protection funded by Innovate UK. Services to support decisions at the ... ...
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Innovation Hub for Controlled Environment Agriculture (IHCEA)

CHAP has partnered with Liberty Produce to establish the Innovation Hub for Controlled Environment Agriculture (IHCEA) which is housed at Liberty’s Future Farming Hub on site at the James Hutton Institute, ... ...
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International Pest Horizon Scanning

As part of the International Pest Horizon Scanning capability, CHAP has funded the distribution of 180 Android tablet devices to plant doctors in five countries: Ghana, Nepal, Peru, Vietnam and Malawi. ... ...
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Lab to Field (Mobile Crop Science Labs)

CHAP has four mobile laboratories. These trailers and their on-board state-of-the-art equipment are available to use by farmers, growers, agronomists, agrochemical companies who want to find solutions ... ...
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Crop Storage Research Facility

CHAP’s crop storage research unit is based at Sutton Bridge in Lincolnshire. It provides research, expertise and training for the crop storage industry and specialises in potato and other field vegetable ... ...
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Vertical Farming Development Centre

CHAP’s Vertical Farming Development Centre is housed at Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC), near Selby, and provides additional and complementary capabilities to STC’s existing LED4CROPS facilities. This ... ...
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Plant Phenotyping and Soil Health Facility

The CHAP Plant Phenotyping and Soil Health Facility at Cranfield University brings the latest scientific knowledge and understanding to 21^st century farming. The research conducted here is ... ...
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National Reference Collection

CHAP’S National Reference Collection of biotic crop threats is physically located held at CABI, in Egham and Fera in Sand Hutton near York. It brings together the world-class collections of these ... ...
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Advanced Glasshouse Facility

CHAP’s Advanced Glasshouse Facility is located at Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC), near Selby. This facility enables new plant protection products and integrated crop protection programmes to ... ...
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Natural Light Growing (NLG) Centre

CHAP has partnered with RIPE building services Ltd to realise the development of a new approach to commercial protected crop production utilising full UV spectrum natural daylight. For the first time, ... ...
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Fungal Biopesticide Development Lab

Our services include: The Fungal Biopesticide Development Laboratory is being used to find fungal isolates that have the potential to become an economically viable biopesticide. We offer services to pesticide ... ...
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E-Flows Mesocosm

Semi-field regulatory risk assessments using a mesocosm approach have often been considered unsatisfactory as there is a tendency for results to be too variable to constitute scientific robustness. The ... ...
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Digital Phenotyping Lab

CHAP’s Digital Phenotyping Lab is based at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire. Here we use cutting-edge imaging technology to automate the detection of crop pests and diseases, to assess their impact ... ...
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Field Scale Precision Equipment

CHAP’s precision machinery is housed in two centres: at Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC), near Selby and at Newcastle University. This machinery enables researchers ... ...
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Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory

CHAP’s Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory is based at NIAB in Cambridge. The laboratory’s primary aim is to use genomic approaches ... ...
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For any further information about this capability or if you are interested in discussing a collaboration and/or a grant or commercially funded project, please contact CHAP.INNOVATION@Chap-solutions.co.uk or telephone 01904 462062

Vertical Farming Development Centre

Plant Phenotyping and Soil Health Facility

Digital Phenotyping Lab

CropMonitor Pro

Innovation Hub for Controlled Environment Agriculture (IHCEA)

International Pest Horizon Scanning

Lab to Field (Mobile Crop Science Labs)

Crop Storage Research Facility

Vertical Farming Development Centre

Plant Phenotyping and Soil Health Facility

National Reference Collection

Advanced Glasshouse Facility

Natural Light Growing (NLG) Centre

Fungal Biopesticide Development Lab

E-Flows Mesocosm

Digital Phenotyping Lab

Field Scale Precision Equipment

Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory