Iranian Knowledge-Based Company Acquires Know-How of Tissue Culture of Ornamental Plants
“Our knowledge-based company is one of the first firms that have indigenized tissue culture in ornamental plants,” said Ebrahim Bairamizadeh, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
“We have been able to indigenize the tissue culture technique for ornamental plants, even for the base of fruit trees and the roots of the gerbera plant, which was once imported,” he added.
This will save foreign exchange and prevents the imports of these products, Bairamizadeh said.
In a relevant development in 2022, a knowledge-based company in Iran had also succeeded in production of fresh turmeric and ornamental plants, seedlings and seeds which have no viruses and do not need any poison spraying.
“The plants that we provide to farms are plant phytogens, which means that they are healthy and free from any contamination and germs,” Ali Oqalayee, the managing director of the knowledge-based Avij Kesht Baft Arvin company, told ANA.
Noting that ornamental plants were smuggled illegally to Iran in the past and they needed pesticide spraying, he said, “We have produced plants that do not require any type of spraying which is an important advantage.”
“Fortunately, with this method, we were able to indigenize ornamental plants like orchids and provided them to greenhouses with the same quality as foreign specimens,” Oqalayee said.
"Also, the fresh turmeric plant was not produced in Iran before and we are the first company which worked on the turmeric plant commercially and we were able to harvest fresh turmeric,” he underlined.
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