Methodology

How plant tissue culture works

A five-stage process that begins with a single piece of plant tissue and ends with thousands of healthy plants ready to plant.

  1. 01/05

    Explant

    Select high-quality tissue from a source plant — growth tips, young stems, or root tissue — and surface-sterilize it to bring it into sterile lab conditions.

    Explant
  2. 02/05

    Initiation

    Transfer the explant onto a nutrient-rich culture medium tuned for the species. The tissue responds, recovers, and enters the next phase.

    Initiation
  3. 03/05

    Multiplication

    The plant divides again and again, until a single explant becomes tens, hundreds, and eventually thousands of plantlets — all genetically identical.

    Multiplication
  4. 04/05

    Rooting

    Young plantlets move to a medium that induces root formation. At this stage the plants become biologically self-sufficient.

    Rooting
  5. 05/05

    Acclimatization

    Transition from the lab to a normal environment — greenhouse, soil medium, controlled humidity — until the plants are fully ready for field planting.

    Acclimatization