Services
Plant tissue culture services
Four service lines across the tissue culture workflow. Micropropagation and contract research are available now; plant health and import and export are being added.
Tissue Culture
In vitro multiplication of plants from small explants on nutrient media. Clean, genetically uniform material at scale.
Micropropagation, clonal propagation, in vitro
Plant Health
Virus indexing, meristem-tip culture for virus elimination, and clean-stock programmes for high-value cultivars.
Virus indexing, disease elimination, clean stock
Import & Export
Tissue-cultured plant material is well-suited to Australian phytosanitary requirements for international plant trade.
Phytosanitary, DAFF biosecurity, quarantine compliant
Research
Contract protocol development, variety trials, and propagation research for industry bodies, breeders, and growers.
Protocol development, variety trials, contract R&D
Process
How tissue culture works
Plant tissue culture, or micropropagation, is the laboratory multiplication of plants from small tissue samples — often a few millimetres of shoot tip or axillary bud — placed on a sterile nutrient medium. Cultures pass through four stages: initiation, multiplication, rooting, and acclimatisation.
The outcome is a large number of genetically uniform, pathogen-tested plants produced in a fraction of the space and time of conventional nursery propagation.
- 01
Initiation
Surface-sterilised explants are established on a starter medium.
- 02
Multiplication
Cultures are subcultured to produce large numbers of identical plantlets.
- 03
Rooting
Shoots are transferred to a rooting medium to develop roots.
- 04
Acclimatisation
Plantlets are hardened to ambient conditions before dispatch.
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Tell us what you have in mind: a production run, a protocol for a new species, disease elimination, import or export, or a research trial.
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