The price endowed with CHF 15’000 is donated by “Zentralschweiz Innovativ” (in short “Zinno”), an interregional Swiss program to strengthen the competitiveness of businesses located in Central Switzerland. Amphasys convinced the jury with its rapid and accurate method for yeast viability testing using impedance flow cytometry.
Download the press release (only available in German).
Pollen is the seed of the seed companies, and seed is in the center of the International Seed Federation ISF Wold Seed Congress in Budapest. Therefore, the label-free, portable solution of Amphasys for the analysis of pollen viability is at the root of a successful business for the seed industry. Visit us at our booth 618.
High temperatures interfere with sexual reproduction and thus fruit and seed set. Heat tolerance was analyzed, among other things, by pollen viability and pollen number. Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) were identified for most of these traits, including a single, highly significant one for pollen viability, which accounted for 36% of phenotypic variation in the population and modified pollen viability under high temperature with around 20%. Download the publication by Xu et al. from the group of Prof. Ivo Rieu.
The new chips are designed to further increase the sensitivity for cells with a size of 15 to 40 μm. This chip is particularly useful for the analysis of small pollen, especially in combination with the 120 and 250 μm chips, because the same fluidic system can be used.
Amphasys will be presenting at the SeedCentral Discover Meeting at the University of California in Davis. Download the 45-second introduction here.
Impedance Flow Cytometry: A Novel Technique in Pollen Analysis. Analysis of pollen viability plays an important role in various aspects of plant breeding and production processes. Here, we show that the label-free analysis of pollen based on their dielectric properties by impedance flow cytometry (IFC) is a very efficient method for the determination of pollen viability and microspore maturation in a high throughput manner. In addition, IFC shows potential in pollen analysis with respect to germinability and ploidy. Heidmann et al. 2016, PLOS ONE
Marcel Schwerzmann, the president of the government of the canton Lucerne, recognizes Amphasys for its development of a revolutionary technology for the easy and fast analysis of single cells. See newsletter for more details (in German).
The proven AmphaSoft for acquisition and analysis of impedance flow cytometry measurements has been completely redesigned for state-of-the-art user friendliness, speedy experiments and integration of accessory tools for automated high-thoughput viability analysis. It runs on Windows 7 or 10 and requires the new Ampha Z32 cytometer or a hardware upgrade enabling even higher accuracy and speed. Contact us for further details.
After a successful first edition, the Amphacademy 2016 will be again an international meeting for experienced researchers, leading scientists, opinion leaders, experts and new users in the Amphasys community.
Successful breeding and production of wheat and other crops depends on strong and healthy pollen: Only viable pollen can induce the growth of a grain. The higher the pollen quality, the larger the yield! Amphasys provides the unique and mobile tool to analyze pollen quality! See our new application note.
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