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Conservation
Conservation is an area we're interested in. Tissue culture could support threatened species programmes, ex situ conservation, and ecological restoration in Australia, working alongside botanic gardens, research organisations, and conservation agencies.
Industry background. 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
Why this interests us
Conservation programmes at all scales interest us — from small protocol-development projects on a single threatened species to multi-species restoration supply. If you're working in this space, we'd be glad to start a conversation.
References
- Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. PlantBank tissue culture and cryopreservation.