Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Forestry

Type of services provided

• Evaluation of biofuels quality (calorific value, moisture, combustion heat, ash content, granulometric analysis)
• Advisory and education activities in the field of integrated harvesting and transport technologies in forestry, Cable Cranes in Forestry
• Elaboration of marketing analysis for timber trade
• phone and computer supported surveys
• measurement of nanomechanical properties of plant cell walls
• almost 20 000 specimen of vascular plants
• DNA fragment analysis and Sanger sequencing
• wildlife forensic analyses and forensic analyses of forest tree species
• measurement of assimilation rate and transpiration rate, evaluation of water use efficiency of plants
• measurement of the efficiency of light-dependent reaction of photosynthesis: screening of stress-resistant genotypes or species

Research infrastructure/service category

• Patents and inventions (list of patents available on: https://kltlm.tuzvo.sk/en/patents)
• CATI sytem for public opinion survey or marketing analysis
• atomic force microscope MultiMode8
• scientyphic botanical herbarium
• genetic analyser ABI PRISM 3130
• gas exchange system Li6400XT
• fluorimeter Handy PEA
• fluorimeter Walz PAM-2500