Plant science articles
CID Staff Featured in Upcoming Portland State University Video
Last week we welcomed a film crew from Portland State University to CID headquarters to participate in an upcoming promotional video “PSU Squared.” The new film highlights PSU university graduates and how they are using their degrees in the working world. Application Scientist Andrea Melnychenko, a featured graduate who interviewed with the crew, had this… Continue reading…
CID Presents at American Society of Horticultural Science Conference
If you plan on attending the 2014 American Society of Horicultural Science Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida this week, make sure to stop by and visit our booth. Application Scientist, Andrea Melnychenko, and CID’s owner, Leonard Felix, would love to demonstrate our instruments, hear about your research, and answer any questions you may have about… Continue reading…
Welcoming Our Interns, Part II
We are happy to welcome our newest interns to CID! Ben Klave is working with Jim Goecks and our Engineering department. He will be a senior at Camas High School and is part of the MST (Math Science Technology) Magnet program. Ben Metcalf is a senior in college at University of Oregon and is working with… Continue reading…
Meet Our New Intern, Kim Popek
We are delighted to welcome Kim to CID, where she is currently working on QA for the F-750. Kim joined CID after completing her M.A. in Environmental Science at University College Dublin, Ireland, where her research concentrated on ecological restoration and botany. Prior to her Master’s degree, she graduated with Bachelor of Science degrees in… Continue reading…
CID Exhibits at Plant Biology Europe
If you are visiting Plant Biology Europe in Dublin this week, be sure to stop and say hello to Andrea Melnychenko and Pep Oncins at the CID Bio-Science booth. This is the first time CID has exhibited at Plant Biology Europe, where we are featuring the award-winning CI-900 Portable Ethylene Analyzer.
Modified Atmosphere Packaging Gets a New QA Tool for Fresh-Cut Produce
Measuring only CO2 and O2 in Modified Atmosphere Packaging for produce leaves out an important key marker of produce freshness: Ethylene (C2H4). C2H4 production is a natural part of the plant life cycle, a complex hormone that varies not only between species, but from crop to crop of the same species. C2H4 has been called… Continue reading…
CI-900 for de-greening citrus gets even better
On Friday we had a wonderful call from a happy citrus grower, actually the production director from one of the largest citrus growers in the country. He was quite pleaased with the performance of his CI-900 Ethylene Analyzer evaluation unit which was great to hear however almost as exciting was the opportunity to share the news… Continue reading…
The newest CI-110 Canopy Analyzer printed circuit boards have arrived.
The CI-110 Canopy Analyzer is a complex system of devices all tied together with software to make the task of operating the system and analyzing the data efficient and easy. The new boards integrate some of the previously separate sub-system components into the system board. The PC software will appear identical however the underlying drivers… Continue reading…
Welcoming Our Interns, Part I
Katherine is working with Application Scientist and Quality Assurance Manager, Andrea Melnychenko, and will be focusing on characterizing the electrochemical sensor response of our CI-900 Portable Ethylene Analyzer across various conditions. She will also conduct an experiment to quantify root developmental differences under drought conditions using our CI-600 In-Situ Root Imager and CI-690 RootSnap! Analysis… Continue reading…
Wildflower Heaven
At CID we are lucky enough to have our offices across the street from beautiful Lacamas Lake Park, where we love taking lunchtime hikes. The Pacific Northwest is wildflower heaven, and right now our trails are lined with blue, pink and white flowers. Our most famous local wildflower is the endangered Camas Lily, which creates… Continue reading…