Daisy Petal™
Perfusion Bioreactor System
Straightforward fermentation,
no experience required.
Meet the Daisy Petal™
The first microbial perfusion fermentation system designed and built for continuous protein production, allowing you to make more protein with less space, effort, and cost.
Daisy Petal™ is the first fermentation system designed and built for continuous protein production by fermentation experts.
This breakthrough capability means it can produce as much protein as a bigger reactor for a fraction of the size and cost.
Additionally, the system is designed for accessibility. Sunflower’s intuitive single-use assemblies include a perfusion-enabled bioreactor with all necessary sensors, filters, connections, and tubing attached to a rigid panel. Every component is mounted where it needs to be, empowering non-expert users to intuitively install the single-use tubing assembly on the Daisy Petal™. Operations are fully automated by HelianthOS™, Sunflower’s universal operating system.
The Daisy Petal™ allows users to test key process parameters more efficiently, collect more data in one campaign, or simply produce greater quantities of cells or proteins.
Learn how continuous production with Daisy Petal™ enables manufacturers to scale to meet market demands in growing bioeconomies worldwide.
The Daisy Petal™ is our pioneering benchtop automated single-use bioreactor system for continuous protein, molecule or cell line production using microbes. Daisy Petal™ is designed to help you achieve your R&D goals in drug/vaccine development, food technologies, synthetic biology or diagnostics development, without being a bioprocessing expert. ‘Plug-N’-Produce’™ features include a structured single-use bioreactor assembly for successful installation every time, comprehensive “hands-free” system automation by HelianthOS™ and a simple cloud-based application, Nursery™, for building your recipe and monitoring its progress during operation on the Daisy Petal™ .
Works continuously for you
Daisy Petal™ uses our patented in-vessel cell retention device and operates perfusion or chemostat fermentations
Maximize yields, minimize footprint
The 1 L working volume of Daisy Petal™ can deliver up to 20L of output process fluids in one operation
Set up fast and properly
Intuitive layout and structured consumables mean no more installing tubing backwards (yeah, we’ve been there too)
Process monitoring is standard
Daisy Petal™ systems and single-use assemblies come with ready-to-use sensors for pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, and offgas monitoring
Automated from start to finish
Sunflower’s universal HelianthOS™ software handles all the process controls and makes smart responses to deviations during a run. Remote and comprehensive process monitoring means you can walk away during Daisy Petal™ operations (it’s OK…go have lunch)
Easy to program
Sunflower’s cloud based Nursery™ application lets you create recipes for the fermentation you want, from routine production to an efficient Design of Experiments (DoE)
It’s all in the box
Daisy Petal™ comes with all the hardware and software you need right in the box to get started immediately (that’s right—no extra parts to source or install before you get going.)
- Continuously produce secreted proteins or small molecules from cells
- Cultivate lots of yeast, fungi, bacteria or other microorganisms
- Test out key parameters to optimize your fermentation (DoE studies)
- Evaluate new microbial cell lines
- Create batches of alternative protein for food product development
- Prepare new reagents for research and diagnostic development
- Advance your discovery and preclinical testing ideas
