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Vivent - Innovative Biosensors

Vivent uses artificial intelligence to decipher plant signals and provides crop health insights directly from plants. Through our innovative plant alert system, we can now help even the most experienced growers to increase yield by limiting long duration stress.

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1/01/2023

Vivent team up with Ledgnd to assess the differences in potted lilies

Rising energy prices continue to concern growers in most countries, especially in Europe and North America. Many growers are interested in using supplemental or full LED lighting because of its energy efficiency compared to conventional lighting. However, the purchase costs and the lack of knowledge about the impact of LED lighting on crops can result in a dilemma. So how can growers ensure that investing in one type of lighting system will provide better results than another? And how can growers know when to apply ancillary light to improve crop yields and quality?

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1/01/2023

Benchmarking plant behaviour to increase yields

Two of Switzerland's leading tomato growers, Domaine des Mattines and Stoll Freres, recently met to review their 2022 season learnings and to refine their growing strategies for 2023. Vivent, the Swiss-based plant signals company, provided key insights from electrophysiology signals recorded over the whole season.

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8/06/2022

Sustainable AI sensor set to help growers get early warnings

A unique AI technology that allows growers to tune into the early warnings of disease, pests, nutrient deficiencies, and water stress that plants communicate has received €1.8 million of funding from ePlant and Astanor Ventures.

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8/06/2022

How your plants’ behaviour changes during different crop life cycle stages

How does a tomato plant uses its energy throughout the season? For the first time, the intrinsic tomato developmental changes over a full commercial crop cycle were monitored and revealed. This is done by the Swiss company Vivent, active in commercial plant electrophysiology. With long-term monitoring of electrical potential in growers located in Switzerland, France, and the Netherlands, Vivent was able to track how plant electrical activity changed between February, when seedlings were planted in the glasshouse, and October 2021, when the plants were removed. A graph shows how the electrical potential in the plant change over time.

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8/06/2022

Swiss crop electrophysiology specialist is a registered B Corporation

The ‘Fitbit of plants’, Vivent’s PhytlSigns device has been certified as a B Corp – a Certified Benefit Corporation – after meeting rigorous social and environmental standards which represent its commitment to do business in a meaningful way, by pursuing purpose as well as profit. "Vivent’s technology leads to increased yields, improved crop protection effectiveness, and encourages the adoption of environmentally preferable protection solutions – so more food, less chemicals," the Vivent team explains. "With recertification every three years, Vivent has embarked on a process that aims at ever higher standards and continuous improvement."

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8/06/2022

Vivent biosensors: analyzing and using electric signals from plants to optimize crops

The Swiss company Vivent, pioneer in electrophysiology, has decided to use those signals in order to provide producers with crop monitoring solutions through biosensors. Already implemented on greenhouse crops for cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers, and in open fields for vines, Vivent is now conducting trials on lettuce, asparagus, strawberries in polytunnels, as well as sugar beets and potatoes.

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8/06/2022

Modern Crop Protection – Bayer and Vivent investigate plant defense mechanisms

Modern crop protection practices combine classical disease control with plant resistance induction to various biotic and abiotic stresses. Such stresses might be plant pathogens or extreme weather conditions including drought or heat. One way to induce plant resistance to crop diseases is the use of biological or synthetic solutions, so-called plant defense inducers (PDI). Various biochemical and molecular biological assays have been developed during the 1990s to discover new structures and profiles from known classes of defense inducers1.

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8/06/2022

Sensor receives panic signals from plant under attack

Living organisms are constantly sending out electrophysical signals. Plants use these electrical signals to detect stress when attacked by pests and diseases. The Business Unit Greenhouse Horticulture and Flower Bulbs of Wageningen University & Research investigate whether sensors can recognize electrophysical signals.

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8/06/2022

Real-time crop stress monitoring to hit North America through partnership

Ecoation and Vivent have signed a partnership agreement to bring a real-time crop stress monitoring to the North American market.

To further the partnership, Vivent has installed real-time crop sensors at HORTECA, a North American Horticultural Technology Center & Academy (HORTECA). The 2-acre Demonstration and R&D facility is located in Ruthven, Ontario, right in the heart of the biggest greenhouse production cluster in North America.

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8/06/2022

Automated real-time stress alerts from your plants increase yields

Vivent’s innovative biosensors detect stress signals in the plant’s internal network long before visible symptoms appear. Monitoring crop health in real-time shows when plants are growing productively or when they are stressed and underperforming, adapting to disease, pests, or other suboptimal conditions. Growers can now receive real-time alerts directly from their crops when their plants are stressed using Vivent’s biosensors.

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21/09/2021

Vivent announces partnership with Bayer for technology geared to help growers secure yields

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The new technology provides farmers with an insight into crop stressors prior to visual symptoms appearing.

Bayer researchers will use the technology to accelerate discovery of innovative crop protection chemistry.

Tag: Bayer, crop protection, crop stressors, crop protection

Gland Switzerland, Aug 31, 2021 – Swiss-based technology company Vivent announced today a new partnership with Bayer which grants the ag leader access to the pioneering technology system, PhytlSigns. PhytlSigns provides real-time detection of crop stressors such as fungal diseases, insect infestations and nutrient deficiencies, well before a plant shows visual signs. Bayer researchers will use the technology in their development of new crop protection chemistry.

The announcement comes at a time when farmers worldwide report losing as much as 50 percent of their crops to stressors such as weeds, insects, diseases, and adverse environmental effects. PhytlSigns biosensors detects these problems using a plants’ own signals. Growers then receive alerts regarding the stressors so they can take immediate corrective action.

“Helping grow more food through real-time detection of crop responses to environmental changes and a wide range of threats is the foundation of our technology” said Carrol Plummer, of Vivent. “Our sensors record these signals and with our unique analytical approach which uses machine learning, the signals can be interpreted.”

Bayer will leverage PhytlSigns’ early detection of plant stressors to potentially accelerate the research and development of new crop protection products needed by farmers around the world.

“Bayer scientists consistently challenge themselves to quickly discover new generations of crop protection substances that meet the expectations of farmers and society,” said Sybille Lamprecht, a researcher from Bayer Crop Science in Monheim. “PhytlSigns allows us to speed up our decision-making on potential crop protection products.”

21/09/2021

Real-time detection of crop stressors helps develop new crop protection

Swiss-based technology company Vivent announced today a new partnership with Bayer which grants the company access to the system PhytlSigns.

Tag: Hortidaily, Bayer, plant electrophysiology, crop electrophysiology, crop monitoring, crop protection, crop stressors, ungal diseases, insect infestations, nutrient deficiencies

PhytlSigns provides real-time detection of crop stressors such as fungal diseases, insect infestations and nutrient deficiencies, well before a plant shows visual signs. Bayer researchers will use the technology in their development of new crop protection chemistry.

The announcement comes at a time when farmers worldwide report losing as much as 50 percent of their crops to stressors such as weeds, insects, diseases, and adverse environmental effects. PhytlSigns biosensors detect these problems using a plants’ own signals. Growers then receive alerts regarding the stressors so they can take immediate corrective action.

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“Helping grow more food through real-time detection of crop responses to environmental changes and a wide range of threats is the foundation of our technology,” said Carrol Plummer, of Vivent. “Our sensors record these signals and with our unique analytical approach which uses machine learning, the signals can be interpreted.”

Bayer will leverage PhytlSigns’ early detection of plant stressors to potentially accelerate the research and development of new crop protection products needed by farmers around the world.

“Bayer scientists consistently challenge themselves to quickly discover new generations of crop protection substances that meet the expectations of farmers and society,” said Sybille Lamprecht, a researcher from Bayer Crop Science in Monheim. “PhytlSigns allows us to speed up our decision-making on potential crop protection products.”

https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9351078/real-time-detection-of-crop-stressors-helps-develop-new-

21/09/2021

Data-driven sustainably grown cannabis and supporting the standardization of the sector

Ceres Greenhouse Solutions uses passive solar design principles coupled with plant sensing to provide growers real-time information on how to optimize growing conditions.

Tag: Cannabis, sustainability, crop monitoring, crop protection, crop sensors, greenhouse cannabis

Marc Plinke, the inventor-innovator who founded Ceres Greenhouse Solutions, focuses on using data to optimise yield and greenhouse environment management. Marc and his team have invested in a range of smart controls and sensors, including PhytlSigns crop electrophysiology monitoring.

"We’ve used environmental sensors for years but are excited about new developments in plant sensing," says Plinke. "We installed a PhytlSigns system in a client’s indoor grow and have been receiving regular reports as the crop has gone from vegetative to reproductive growth. As well as seeing distinct changes related to irrigation we can see stress levels before and after greenhouse operations that we had never been able to measure before. We're very excited about getting information from the plants for inclusion in our decision support systems."

PhytlSigns is a commercial crop health diagnostic system based on plant electrophysiology. PhytlSigns uses AI to interpret signals linked to plant stress and diagnoses pathogens and pests prior to the appearance of any visible symptoms. This technology can support standardization and sustainability in the legal cannabis sector.

"All plants use internal electrical, mechanical and chemical signalling networks to coordinate growth, reproduction and defence – and Vivent is the first company in the world to launch a commercial crop health diagnostic system based on plant electrophysiology," says Carrol Plummer, CEO of Vivent. "It is very important for us to partner with innovative greenhouse providers to support legal cannabis growers with standardisation and compliance as well as support sustainable growing practices."

https://www.mmjdaily.com/article/9334644/data-driven-sustainably-grown-cannabis-and-supporting-the-

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PhytlSigns
PhytlSigns

PhytlSigns provides realtime monitoring of crop responses to environmental changes and early warnings of a wide range of crop stressors, well before visual symptoms, enabling growers to increase yields, reduce pre-harvest losses and to choose environmentally preferable crop protection.

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Vivent Biosensors
Crop monitoring device

Vivent biosensors continuously monitor the crop and register stress in the plant. The linked smart software immediately sends the grower an alert when stress is measured. He can then zoom in on this and take action to lower the stress, so that the crop can quickly return to maximum performance.

Introduction date: 1/01/2022
More information: https://www.phytlsigns.com/

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