Iranian Knowledge-Based Firm to Export Modified Seedlings to Afghanistan
“Our company has made this advanced technology available to the Iranian gardeners with the aim of producing healthy and original seedlings by using the tissue culture method. By taking advantage of the latest scientific findings and experienced experts, we produce virus-free seedlings in two groups of seeded and cored which have significant advantages over traditional seedlings,” Hamed Mahmoudzadeh, the managing director of the knowledge-based company said in an interview.
“Increasing the yield and early fruiting of trees, producing uniform and high-quality fruits, homogeneity of the garden, and ease of maintenance and harvesting operations, greater resistance of trees to pests and diseases, and reducing the number of years of harvesting are among the advantages of these seedlings,” he added.
“Also, these seedlings enjoy a long lifespan, high growth power, compatibility with high-pH soils, and drought resistance, which contributes to the sustainability and greater profitability of gardens,” Mahmoudzadeh said.
“Soon, the company's first export shipment to Afghanistan, worth about four billion Tomans, will be sent,” he noted.
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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