Plantain, banana and pineapple tissue culture

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Plantain, banana and pineapple tissue culture

• Biochemical Products Ghana Ltd
• Ningo Prampram Road, New Ningo,
• Dangme West District, Greater Accra,
• GHANA, West Africa

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We are located off the Prampram New Ningo road
opposite the Tä lagoon, New Ningo, Greater Accra
Region, Ghana, West Africa.
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Biochemical Products Ghana Ltd Ningo
biotechnology centre, Dangme West District,
Ghana, West Africa
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The plantain and banana mother garden
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The starter material
The explant
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Preparing explant for initiation
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Surface sterilization
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Surface sterilizing the explant
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Explant transferred into growth medium
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In the controlled environment (growth) room
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Successive transfers in the laminar flow cabinet
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Plantlet multiplication and rooting
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Screen house for acclimatization and nursery to
field readiness
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De-flasking and first stage transplant for
acclimatization
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Acclimatization chamber
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Acclimatized plantlets in seedling trays ready
for sale of transplant into soil bags
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Field ready in soil bags
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Field ready plants in nursery
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Reduced time to fruit formation
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Advantages of tissue culture plants

• Suckers produced are Identical in character to
  parent stock
• Disease free no virus, nematode, fungus etc
• Year round lab production of suckers for year
  round field planting
• Reduced time to maturity e.g. apem hemaa flowers
  in 8 months
• Large numbers of suckers for planned plantation
  development

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To order

• For large scale, call us to plan your crop.
• Better to plant throughout the year
• Mono crop requires 1,800 suckers per hectare
• Remember, initiation to field readiness takes six
  months