Canberra Plant Technology
Tissue culture for Australia's emerging plant industries.
An early-stage Australian plant tissue culture venture. We're interested in working with growers, nurseries, breeders, and research partners on micropropagation, plant health, phytosanitary import and export, and contract research across horticulture, native foods, forestry, and conservation crops.
Services
What we're building
The four linked service lines we're working toward across the plant tissue culture workflow.
Tissue Culture
Micropropagation of commercial and emerging-industry plants — clean, genetically uniform material produced in vitro.
Read more →Plant Health
Virus indexing, disease elimination through meristem culture and heat therapy, and clean-stock production.
Read more →Import & Export
Phytosanitary-compliant plant movement. Tissue-cultured material suits quarantine pathways for international trade.
Read more →Research
Protocol development, variety trials, and propagation research for industry, growers, and breeders.
Read more →Industries
Crops we're interested in
Our interest spans AgriFutures Australia's emerging-industry priorities and Hort Innovation levied crops.
About
An early-stage Australian tissue culture venture
Canberra Plant Technology is an early-stage Australian plant tissue culture venture. We're interested in species where clonal propagation, disease elimination, or in vitro multiplication could address a real industry problem.
Our interest spans emerging and established crops in horticulture, native foods, forestry, and conservation. We're keen to start conversations with growers, breeders, and research partners working in these areas.
Industry background. Several of these crops are covered by AgriFutures Australia and Hort Innovation. Their public research is useful background reading on the industries themselves.
Insights
From the blog
Tissue Culture for Australia's Emerging Industries
Why clonal propagation matters for the AgriFutures-priority crops — agave, native foods, pongamia, tea tree oil, and more.
Read →Tissue Culture & Biosecurity in Australia
How tissue culture fits the DAFF phytosanitary framework and why it is often the pathway of choice for plant import and export.
Read →Macadamia Tissue Culture
Clonal propagation of elite macadamia cultivars and rootstock for the Australian nut industry.
Read →Start a conversation
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