SBW International BV

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SBW International BV

• Your reliable partner in
• plant tissue culture
• Andre Smaal

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Services

• propagation
• disease eradication
• certification
• germ-plasm conservation
• breeding support
• research
• consultancy

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Tissue Culture

• What is tissue culture?
• The culture of plants or plant parts on an
  artificial medium in a sterile and conditioned
  environment.

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Why clonal propagation ?

• Increase yield by cloning high-yielding
  individual plants
• Success shown in oil palm, Eucalyptus, pine,
  coffee, cacao, teak, etc
• Major shift from seed propagation to clonal
  propagation in last 20 years using tissue culture
  and cutting production

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Why in tissue culture ?

• Zero pathogen pressure
• Germ-plasm conservation
• Advanced biotechnology for breeding

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Micropropagation

• Mother plant selection
• Initiation
• Propagation
• Elongation
• Rooting
• Weaning