The StoreNSure Carrot enables you to determine whether a batch of recently harvested carrots will develop black spots during cold storage for up till 5 months. The test is based on measurement of the activity of carrot specific genes related to resistance to black spot fungi. Activation of such genes indicate a certain risk for the development of black spots caused by at least 5 different fungi (among others Mycocentrospora acerina, Alternaria radicina and Mycocentrospora acerina).

Suppliers of strawberry plants store their young plants for months at low temperatures thereby serving their customers for a considerable time and extending thus the strawberry production. The chosen moment of packaging and transfer of the young plants to the cold store is crucial for the final quality of the plants and thus for the production of strawberries.When the plants are transferred too early, poor plant performance, many months later, is the result.

As part of the Interreg IV EU Program, NSure developed a vitality test for tomato plants. Specific tomato genes indicate whether the plants are under pressure of a pathogen. Long before visible symptoms become apparent, activation or de-activation of specific genes indicate if the plants are attacked by either Botrytis cinerea or Powdery mildew, two of the major diseases in tomato horticulture.