Iranian Firm Uses Innovative Method to Produce Difficult-to-Grow Ornamental Flowers

“We work on flowers that do not reproduce easily. And the reproduction of such flowers is both time-consuming and costly but they have a very high economic value,” Shahin Teymouri Azar, the managing director and project manager of the technological company, told ANA.

Noting that the company also works on modified vegetative rootstocks, including GF, GN, MYROBALAN and Gisela vegetative rootstock, he said, “We produce vegetative rootstocks and difficult-to-grow ornamental flowers.”

Teymouri Azar explained that the rootstocks produced in his company are vegetative and have more uses compared to seed rootstocks, saying, “Seed rootstocks are expensive and have much lower yields. On the one hand, they are traditional but vegetative rootstocks require less time to bear fruit. It is true that they are more expensive than seed and traditional rootstocks but they bear fruit in less time, so that they will bear fruit between two and three years.”

In a relevant development in October, specialists of a knowledge-based company in Iran took an important step towards increasing the productivity of greenhouses by localizing the tissue culture technique for 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.

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