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Tissue culture at Motke

The lab works with ornamental and banana plants, raising plantlets in culture and weaning them through tray stages before hardening. Its output runs to more than 12 lakh ornamental plants and 6 lakh banana plants a year.

Aisles of lit shelving stacked with culture vessels in the growth room of the Motke tissue-culture lab

What the lab does

Deshi banana plantlets from tissue culture growing in a cell tray

Banana plants

Plantlets raised in culture, shifted from 104-cavity trays into larger trays as they grow, then hardened.

See banana plants

The commercial product list, quantities and lead times are confirmed per enquiry.

Liners for export

Motke is starting to supply tissue-culture liners from the lab to nurseries and importers outside India. Prices, minimum orders, documents and countries are confirmed in your enquiry.

Media preparation, transfer under laminar flow and the growth room: how plantlets move through the Motke lab.

  • Media preparation room with autoclaves, reagent bottles and crates of sterile vessels

    Media preparation

  • Technicians subculturing plantlets at laminar-flow benches in the transfer room

    Laminar-flow benches

  • Dividing a plantlet with forceps on a glass plate under the laminar-flow hood

    Dividing a plantlet

  • Subculturing plantlets with forceps on sterile paper

    Subculturing

  • Freshly subcultured jars of plantlets on the laminar-flow bench

    Fresh subcultures

  • A culture jar of plantlets held up in the growth room

    In the growth room

From culture vessel to hardened plant

  1. 1

    Culture

    Plantlets are multiplied and grown in sealed vessels in the lab.

  2. 2

    Weaning

    Plantlets move out of culture into trays and are acclimatised step by step.

  3. 3

    Hardening

    Trays move into the nursery's hardening area before plants are ready to leave.

Banana plantlets in the hardening beds, leaves wet from misting

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