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The USDA has awarded more than $16.2 million toward Michigan State University's research greenhouse renovation, matched to more than $32.5 million. Here is what it buys, why that matters to anyone acclimating plantlets, and why it is no price guide for a commercial house.
xPlant Editorial5 min read
Tools of the Trade
Cosemar Ozono's chief executive told Hortidaily that ozone is gaining ground in greenhouse irrigation, but only with calibration, monitoring and trained staff. Here is what he says to measure, where the risks sit, and what a propagation lab should ask before buying.
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Industry News
Willoway Nurseries has bought Decker's Nursery of Groveport, Ohio, a propagation and liner business that dates to 1921. The terms are private. Here is what Decker's brings, what the two companies have said, and what liner buyers should ask before spring orders.
5 min read
Plant Science
Western Australia's Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development has started a three-year project to make doubled haploid breeding of wheat and barley faster and cheaper. Here is the technique it builds on — the explant, the trigger, the kit, and the part of a breeding cycle it actually compresses.
8 min read
Tools of the Trade
A clean bench protects the jar, not the person in front of it. How to choose, place, certify and clean transfer-room hoods, and keep a record that lets contamination be traced to a bench.
9 min read
Tools of the Trade
A culture grows under the light and heat at its own shelf, not the room's setpoint. What research supports on LEDs, PPFD, spectrum and photoperiod, and what to log shelf by shelf.
8 min read
Tools of the Trade
What belongs on a culture vessel label, how to test label stock and printers against the culture room, and what to record so a shipped lot traces back to its source.
8 min read
Culture vessels compared: jars, tubes, tubs and bags for production labs
8 min
Water for tissue culture media: what purity to set and how to check it
8 min
Choosing an autoclave for a plant tissue culture lab
8 min
Media prep at production scale: batches, schedules and the records behind them
9 min
Recording contamination in tissue culture: what to write down when a vessel turns
9 min
From the archiveFive illustrated essays
A source-backed editorial series tracing plant tissue culture from Haberlandt's isolated cells through micropropagation…
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