Plant Science & Conservation
Plants in Test Tubes
Our laboratory uses the newest technology for culturing plant tissue, complemented with the botanical knowledge obtained from classical field and literature research, to accomplish essential and thorough exploration, experimentation and discovery.
Preserving Plants via Tissue Culture
Culturing plant tissue allows us to raise individual species using aseptic and controlled environments, created inside culture tubes or glass jars with agar gels designed to provide the plant with everything it needs, including salts, vitamins, hormones and sugar (for energy).
Such a sterile and managed upbringing of plantlets enables the conservation of rare and endangered plants outside their habitat while opening the doors to large-scale micropropagation and several related research applications like DNA barcoding, genotyping and evolutionary analysis.
Plant Tissue Culturing & Micropropagation
Genotyping
DNA Barcoding
Evolutionary Analysis
A controlled Environment
This technique requires us to raise our plants aseptically, in a nutrient-rich media and specific amounts of light hours and nutrients provided, temperature changes and humidity to analyze how they impact seed sprouting, growth rate and performance. Our passionate scientists use this information to create and improve protocols for micropropagation of rare and endangered species with few or no published protocols to support their survival in the wild.
Lab Care for Rare Plants
