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It’s an Agricultural Biotechnology and services company specializing in date palm, arid, and semi-arid crop tissue culture.
Phoenix Agrotech’s Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory is headquartered in Santa Ana, California. They operate a 20,000 sq.ft. plant tissue culture laboratory dedicated to date palm development. Phoenix Agrotech’s farms and greenhouses are located in the California desert, where their managing partners successfully farm thousands of acres, growing a variety of crops.
Date Palm Tissue Culture
Date palm tissue culture is a rapid clonal propagation (micropropagation) method, where a small piece (explant) of the desired mother plant is initiated under sterile conditions into an in vitro environment, such as a test tube or culture vessel. Under tissue culture conditions, cells of the explant undergo rapid multiplication, ultimately producing many young date palm plantlets, which are genetically identical to the desired mother palm.
Why Date Palm Tissue Culture?
The propagation of date palms through seeds is not a reliable method of producing true-to-type plants because no two date palm seedlings are alike. Therefore, in order to preserve valuable rare cultivars, date palms need to be vegetative propagated to insure true-to-type parentage of the donor palm.
Traditional vegetative propagation of the date palm consists of removing and planting the offshoot from the mother plant. Although reliable, this method is slow, the number of offshoots is limited and it can take decades to generate enough plants to become commercially viable.
Through date palm tissue culture, the number of genetically identical plants regenerated from a single mother stock plant is greatly increased producing thousands, even millions of plants in a shorter period of time.
Benefits of Date Palm Tissue Culture:
It’s healthy: Produced in a sterile laboratory environment and grown out in a quarantined green house, our guaranteed healthy and disease free plants are able to meet the most demanding international phytosanitary requirements and provide our customers with an industry-leading product.
It’s a known source: Every date palm plant produced from our laboratory is traceable to the original high quality, highly productive mother palm located on our Southern California farms. The source of each date palm plant is extremely important to the eventual quality and yield of the fruit. Uniform, true copies of the elite mother plant preserve the desired quality and traits of the original. Make certain you know the source of the plants you purchase for your farm.
It reduces risk: With survival rates much greater than traditional offshoot planting, and third party genetic fingerprinting to verify true-to-type, our plants reduce our customer’s risk. If our plant doesn’t produce the variety of fruit we promise, Phoenix Agrotech will replace the plant free of charge. And we carry a $2 million insurance policy to support that promise!
It has field uniformity: With the ability to establish large scale farms in a shorter period of time than traditional methods, field uniformity leads to increased farming efficiencies, lower costs, and more profitable operations.
If you’re thinking on sowing your own Palm crop, choose with the most professional company who offers you the best service and best quality in date palm, arid, and semi-arid crops, contact:
PHOENIX AGROTECH HEADQUATERS:
2880Aa South Fairview St., Santa Ana, CA 92704, USA
Tel: 1(714) 549-2962 Fax: 1(714) 549-2968
Or visit their website: www.phoenixagrotech.com
