Iranian Scientists Produce Seedlings through Tissue Culture
“Using our knowledge and expertise, we managed to reduce the time of the seedling production process, which previously took about two years, to 6 months,” said Seyed Mojtabi Hosseini, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
“Most of our products are sent to rural and remote areas, because nowadays there is a desire to create more gardens in these areas,” he added.
Hosseini noted that the seedlings produced by his compaby have been supplied to different provinces of Iran, including Kurdistan, Lorestan, North Khorassan, West Azerbaijan and East Azerbaijan, Golestan, Isfahan, Qom, Alborz and Tehran.
In another development in April, Iranian technologists at aanother knowledge-based company had also succeeded in producing plant seedlings by using the tissue culture method while maintaining characteristics of the mother plant.
“We are active in producing vegetative bases of plants by tissue culture method and the researchers of our company succeeded in multiplying each plant by tissue culture method with the same features of the mother plant,” said Arash Shahkar, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
“They produced and propagated both the rootstock and scion by tissue culture method and transplanted by biograft method,” he added.
“The biggest achievement of our company is implementation of biografting method on seedlings,” Shahkar said, adding, “Considering that our products have a blue label, we can export them to all countries.”
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