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Conservation
Tissue culture propagation for threatened species programmes, ex situ conservation, and ecological restoration in Australia. Partnerships with botanic gardens, research organisations, and conservation agencies.
Research basis. Australian botanic gardens have established tissue culture capability as a conservation tool. See for example the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney PlantBank tissue culture programme.
Where tissue culture helps
- Propagation of species where only small amounts of wild-collected material are available
- Recovery programmes for species that do not propagate reliably from seed or cuttings
- Clean, contamination-free material for ex situ collections and germplasm backup
- Bulk propagation of site-appropriate genotypes for revegetation and mine rehabilitation
Working with us
We work with conservation programmes at all scales, from small protocol-development projects on a single threatened species to multi-species restoration supply. Contact us with the species, the conservation objective, and the timeframe.
References
- Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. PlantBank tissue culture and cryopreservation.