Sustainable seed treatments
increased productivity & plant health
Zayndu’s seed treatment and priming process harnesses cold plasma to create ActivatedAir™ – a powerful plant stimulant. Used as a seed priming process it creates strong, healthy plants with increased disease resistance – yet uses no artificial chemicals, leaves no residues and is a completely dry process.
The company was established in 2019 to exploit Professor Felipe Iza’s groundbreaking work on cold plasma. The company is now the world leader in applying cold plasma to seeds, with a wealth of experience of boosting the health, vitality and yield of hundreds of different crop types.
The initial concept was simple; plasma is a known, powerful disinfectant with multiple applications across biology. Academic research had shown for decades that plasma had a beneficial effect on seeds.
Simultaneously, there was a growing unmet demand for new seed treatments that reduced horticulture’s reliance on chemicals. So why was there no commercially viable product servicing the market?
The answer lies in plasma physics. Treating seeds with plasma is extremely challenging. It is easy to prove concepts in a laboratory, but to do it in a production environment, consistently, reliably is a far more challenging request. It took years of research by Zayndu’s academic founders – and our own plasma physics and engineering teams – to build plasma generation systems that could operate in the high dust, high humidity environments associated with seeds.
The hard work paid off. With patents registered globally, Zayndu’s ActivatedAir™ systems are now deployed across three continents – with installations in North America, EU and UK and the Gulf region. This is just the beginning for cold plasma in agriculture. Our plans include higher-capacity machines for more field crops, and to extend the territories where we can support ActivatedAir™ systems worldwide.
ActivatedAir™ seed priming systems repeatedly deliver double-digit gains in crop yields and harvest cycle times – delivered on-site, and without using artificial chemicals.
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ActivatedAir™ is now being used by some of the biggest and most sophisticated innovative growers in the world. Zayndu’s sales focus is on greenhouses and vertical farms, but seed producers and outdoor growers are also amongst the user base.
The most common crops are leafy greens and micro greens, but crops benefitting from ActivatedAir™ in production span a vast range – from trees to flowers. With the knowledge of hundreds of different seed varieties, our team can quickly develop seed treatment protocols for any new variety – and even optimise it to the growing conditions in a specific growing system.
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