Industries · Conservation
Conservation
Conservation is an area we're interested in. Tissue culture could support threatened species programmes, ex situ conservation, and ecological restoration in Australia, working alongside botanic gardens, research organisations, and conservation agencies.
Where tissue culture helps
- Propagation of species where only small amounts of wild-collected material are available
- Recovery programmes for species that do not propagate reliably from seed or cuttings
- Clean, contamination-free material for ex situ collections and germplasm backup
- Bulk propagation of site-appropriate genotypes for revegetation and mine rehabilitation
Why this interests us
Conservation work suits a small laboratory: protocol development on a single threatened species, or initiation and small runs for a restoration programme. If you're working in this space, we'd be glad to start a conversation.
References
- Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. PlantBank tissue culture and cryopreservation.
Also at MeristemLab: which plant-pathogen test answers which question from MeristemLab Diagnostics, and production-record software for tissue-culture labs.