Plants
Iranian Firm Uses Innovative Method to Produce Difficult-to-Grow Ornamental Flowers
TEHRAN (ANA)- A technological company in Iran produces difficult-to-grow ornamental flowers with vegetative rootstocks that have four times the fruit-bearing capacity compared to seed rootstocks.
Iranian Firm Produces Organic Saffron by Dry Farming
TEHRAN (ANA)- An Iranian technological company has managed to produce a new type of organic saffron which does not require water.
Iranian Knowledge-Based Firm Produces Hybrid Sugar Beet Seeds
TEHRAN (ANA)- A knowledge-based company in Iran succeeded in producing and supplying hybrid sugar beet seeds with a price less than half of the foreign samples.
Iranian Scientists Produce Plant-Based Fungicide without Environmental, Health Side Effects
TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian researchers at a technological company in Iran succeeded in producing a plant-based fungicide which has no environmental and health side effects.
Scientists Find New Method to Sweeten Tomatoes
TEHRAN (ANA)- Scientists have found a way to genetically release the tomato's sugar brake without sacrificing yield and this exciting development means that sweeter and juicier tomatoes may soon be making a comeback in supermarkets.
Plants Absorb 31% More CO2 than Previously Thought
TEHRAN (ANA)- New research shows plants absorb 31% more CO2 than previously estimated, raising the global GPP to 157 petagrams per year.
Iranian Firm Produces Vegetative Rootstocks without Fertilizer, Pesticide with 20-Year Lifespan
TEHRAN (ANA)- A technological company in Iran has succeeded in producing vegetative rootstocks by using the seedling tissue culture technique which is free of fertilizers and pesticides.
Trees Engineered to Replace Fossil Fuels
TEHRAN (ANA)- Scientists at NC State University have discovered how modifying lignin in trees using CRISPR can make them better suited for microbial fermentation to produce chemicals sustainably.
Iranian Scientists Produce Hybrid Seed in Glass Greenhouses
TEHRAN (ANA)- The head of the House of Innovation of Agricultural and Organic Products of Islamic Azad University’s Karaj branch announced production of hybrid seed in glass greenhouses.
Iranian Knowledge-Based Company Acquires Know-How of Tissue Culture of Ornamental Plants
TEHRAN (ANA)- Specialists of a knowledge-based company took an important step towards increasing the productivity of greenhouses by localizing the tissue culture technique for ornamental plants.