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| Title | Flying tomato plants: a problem or an improvement? |
| Group | Plant Physiology, Laboratory of |
| Project type | internship |
| Credits | 24 |
| Supervisor(s) | Tristan Marcal Balk from company SAIA Agrobotics BV |
| Examiner(s) | Dr. Rumyana Karlova |
| Contact info | tmbalk@saia-agrobotics.com, +31 634611419 |
| Begin date | 2025/02/01 |
| End date | 2025/09/01 |
| Description | SAIA has developed a new cultivation system to be able to move plants to our automated tomato harvester. This has never been done on this scale for tomato plants. There are cases for roses and gerbera that didn’t work out, but there are also examples of potted plants and lettuce in which it did work. How will mobile cultivation work out for the tomato crop?
There is also an advantage of having single plants moving to the automatic tomato harvester. Each plant can be followed easily in development of growth and ripening stages of the fruit. This enables SAIA to sort plants into segments of the same ripening stage. How homogenous does the crop ripe its tomato fruit? And does this mean that plants should be sorted into different ripening stages? Goals: 1. Overall goal: to determine if plant stress factors known from literature are also true for our mobile plant cultivation. Determine if the measured plant stress results in production decrease. 2. Find out how homogeneous the tomato crop ripes its tomato fruit. Company: SAIA Agrobotics BV Where: Demonstration and Research greenhouse in Ede, next to Ede-Wageningen train station. |
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