MeristemLab Tissue Culture
Tissue culture for Australia's emerging plant industries.
A plant tissue culture laboratory in Geelong. We initiate cultures, develop protocols and run small production jobs for growers, nurseries, breeders and research partners, across horticulture, native foods, forestry and conservation crops. Virus indexing and import and export support are being added.
Services
What we do
Four linked service lines across the plant tissue culture workflow. Two are available now; two are being added, and each page says which.
Tissue Culture
Culture initiation, multiplication and small production runs. Clean, genetically uniform material produced in vitro. Available now.
Plant Health
Virus indexing, disease elimination through meristem culture and heat therapy, and clean-stock production. Being added.
Import & Export
Phytosanitary-compliant plant movement. Tissue-cultured material suits quarantine pathways for international trade. Being added.
Research
Protocol development, variety trials and propagation research for industry, growers and breeders. Available now.
Industries
Crops we work with
Emerging industries first, with AgriFutures Australia's priorities and Hort Innovation levied crops as the map. Each page says why tissue culture suits the crop and what we can take on.
About
A small laboratory for crops the volume labs do not run
MeristemLab Tissue Culture is a plant tissue culture laboratory in Geelong. We work on species where clonal propagation, disease elimination or in vitro multiplication solves a real industry problem, and we keep every culture's record in MeristemLab Software, which was built in this lab.
The work spans emerging and established crops in horticulture, native foods, forestry and conservation. Tell us the species and the problem, and we will say what we can take on.
About the laboratoryInsights
From the blog
Tissue culture for Australia's emerging industries
Pongamia, tea tree, agave, Kakadu plum, finger lime, sandalwood: an industry-by-industry tour of where micropropagation makes a commercial pathway.
Tissue culture and biosecurity in Australian agriculture
How tissue culture supports Australia's biosecurity system: pathogen-free planting material and safer international plant trade under DAFF rules.
Macadamia tissue culture: scaling Australia's native nut industry
How micropropagation supports Australia's macadamia industry: clonal propagation of elite cultivars, clean planting stock and faster orchard establishment.
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Tell us the species, the quantity or the research question, and your timeframe. We reply with what we can take on and what it would involve.
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