About NASC

Please note that we have no commercial arrangements with any of these companies apart from using their products. Information posted here has been taken from the web and should not necessarily be assumed to be complete or up-to-date.

Currently information is held below about Intercept, & Zwapak flower sleeves

• Intercept

  We use intercept as a systemic insecticide, primarily in order to combat sciarid flies in our greenhouses. We find that it is particularly effective when adopted by all greenhouse users within a compartment

For more information see http://www.monrosouth.co.uk

• Zwapak flower sleeves

  We use commercial flower sleeves at three stages in the propagation of arabidopsis:

1. As a 'personal propagator' for the germinating seeds and the young seedlings.
2. As a mechanism for ensuring independence and preventing crossing between lines (also increasing the density that arabidopsis can be grown at by introducing a self-forming support for the branching inflorescences). See (picture).
3. As an enclosure to assist in the collection of seeds from the dry plants to minimise chaff dispersal and to contain the seeds (this is very favourably received from an ACGM containment perspective).

The flower sleeves that we use are from zwapak [http://www.zwapak.nl] in Holland. They come in a variety of heights and sizes that can be used in concert with your particular size of pot.

Please see our protocols page for more details.