About us

Background

Robust Seed Technology A&F AB was founded in 2012 by Dr. Tongyun Shen, who has a PhD in seed science from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and master education in Plant physiology from Umeå University.

Dr Shen has more than 20 years experiences in seed science research and development both at university and at big seed industry. Shen has worked with both theoretical research and large scale implementation. During her PhD study, Dr Shen has developed quicker method for seed quality determination based on enzyme activities.

Since start, Robust Seed Technology has developed the improved seed priming technology which is patented with two patents (EP 2991468 B1 and EP 3174378A1, with title Improved method for seed priming). As the technique has so many advantages, regarding both the seed enhancement effect and the long term store ability, thus, we named the technique SEED VITALIZATION. Seed vitalization has been tested with more than 100 species and 300 varieties and showed significant improvement of the seeds quality. With the EIP-AGRI project support, Seed Vitalization has scaled up to commercial production. Field trials as well as greenhouse trails of the vitalized seeds showed significantly improved harvest.  To convenient the use of the technology, Robust Seed will further develop the technology with full automated process. 

Strategy

Robust Seed Technology’s strategy is developing and supplying technologies, from seed maturation, seed harvest, seed handling, seed enhancement (include, but not limited to seed vitalization) to customers to improve the quality of their seeds for improve harvest and cultivation profit.

Vision

To year 2050 the world’s population is expected to reach 9.7 billion, an increase by 2 billion. The increased population not only significantly increase food demand, but also decrease agriculture land and green area. There are 735 million people faced hunger 2022. How can we produce more food on less agriculture land to feed the increasing population, how can we improve the climate when green area decrease are global challenges.  Robust Seed Technology’s vision is through seed technology contribute to sustainable food production, increase cultivation profit, increased CO2 fixation and improve the environment.