Canberra Plant Technology
Tissue culture for Australia's emerging plant industries.
An Australian plant tissue culture laboratory. We work 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 do
Four linked service lines 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
Contract protocol development, variety trials, and propagation research for industry, growers, and breeders.
Read more →Industries
Emerging and established crops
We work across AgriFutures Australia's emerging-industry priorities and Hort Innovation levied crops.
About
An Australian tissue culture laboratory
Canberra Plant Technology is an Australian plant tissue culture business working across emerging and established crops. Our focus is on species where clonal propagation, disease elimination, or in vitro multiplication addresses a real industry problem — particularly those identified as priorities by AgriFutures Australia and Hort Innovation.
We have conducted tissue culture trial work in Australia on emerging-industry species including agave, and we work across the broader list of AgriFutures priority crops in horticulture, native foods, forestry, and conservation.
Research basis. Our industry and service pages cite AgriFutures Australia and Hort Innovation publications throughout — the same bodies that set national RD&E priorities for the crops we work on.
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 →Discuss a project
Scaling production, developing a new crop, running a trial, or working on conservation? Tell us what you need.
Enquire