POMA

• Measures plant growth rates and photosensitivity. A farmer can determine if crops are growing at maximum yield rates, plant-by-plant. Early detection of infestations means that growers can immediately initiate crop loss mitigation efforts.
• Captures images of plant immune responses to pathogens and insects. Earlier detection will help minimize crop losses. The detection is immediate and timely. Time delays incurred by sending samples to a lab and waiting for long incubation periods can cost days of rapidly spreading bacterial infestations that can cause the loss of entire harvests.

Infected seeds present liabilities and economic risks to growers and seed providers.

POMA and bacteria and fungal diseases

POMA produces actionable intelligence

• Because POMA can provide both data and images, POMA presents easily understood, actionable intelligence that can optimize harvest mitigation decisions.
• Immediate immune responses to pathogens are identified before they can be visualized by farmers and government crop inspectors.

We can identify when a crop field is at risk from infections

We are helping farmers by detecting pathogens before the results can come back from the lab so that mitigation efforts can begin earlier.

Rapid pathogen safety testing for packagers

E. coli, salmonella and listeria outbreaks result in severe damage-control efforts and escalating costs. AppliColor is developing cost-effective approaches that test every leaf in a shipment rather than the current sampling practices that test only a few leaves.