About
An Australian plant tissue culture business
We work with Australian growers, nurseries, breeders, and research partners on plant tissue culture, micropropagation, plant health, phytosanitary import and export, and contract research.
What we do
Canberra Plant Technology provides plant tissue culture and micropropagation services to clients across Australia. 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.
Why emerging-industry crops
Smaller and emerging plant industries often share a common bottleneck: reliable, clean, scalable planting material. For many of these crops, tissue culture is the practical answer. Seed is too variable for commercial consistency, cuttings are too slow or too prone to pathogens, and conventional nursery pathways do not scale quickly enough.
We position our work alongside the national research programmes that identify these bottlenecks — AgriFutures for emerging industries such as pongamia, tea tree oil, native foods, agave, and sesame; Hort Innovation for the broader levied horticulture base.
How we work
For commercial production runs we establish cultures from supplied mother material, multiply to the agreed quantity, root and acclimatise plantlets, and deliver ready for planting or onward nursery growing. For research projects we scope a piece of work with the client, agree milestones, and report results at agreed points.
Research work is confidential by default. Anything we discuss publicly has been agreed with the client first.
Working with us
If you have a project in mind, contact us with the species, approximate quantities or the research question, and your timeframe. We will reply with an initial assessment and an indication of what is realistic.