Woody Plants
In vitro propagated material of woody trees, in contrast to seedlings, maintains selected qualities (stem form, forking, vein) in the plants.
These plants are especially interesting to forestry:
- you do not need as much plants as usual per hectare,
- it is not as costly to care for young plants,
- higher profit through high-quality wood can be expected and
- a high number of clones guarantees the diversity of genes
We also supply our hardened material to forest tree nurseries that handle these plants further according to the necessary
requirements. According to production time please note our order time: we need
your order in September (f.e. 2007) for delivery of hardened material in May of
next year (2008). Nursery plants will be delivered in October (2008).
The trees from in vitro propagation are tested in certification trials at the moment. Our German ministry for agriculture gave the allowance to propagate them at the same time.
Betula spp.
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In vitro propagated Betula
pendula x
platyphylla var. japonica
Excellent stem form and growth of a 9 year old
Betula pendula x platyphylla
var. japonica of in vitro propagation.
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The Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute provided us with selected birch. They are propagated as silvaSelect® trees. They grow extremely fast and their stem form is very straight. We recommend to plant 400 to 600 plants per hectare.
SilvaSelect® birch can be planted for example in afforestation. 
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Robinia pseudoacacia
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Robinia pseudoacacia during
acclimatization in the greenhouse
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Robinia is a very hard wood. It can be used for garden furniture. Used instead of tropical woods it also protects the tropical environment. The Institute for Forest Genetics and Forest Breeding near Berlin selected plus trees with straight stem form and good growth rates and established them as clones in in vitro-culture.
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Fraxinus excelsior
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selected trees from a 12 year old research
forest provide the raw material for our
in vitro cultivation
in vitro cultivation of Fraxinus excelsior
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The quality of ash in Europe will be investigated in a European research project. The three work packages will work on the ecology and genetics, the possibilities of micro propagation as well as marketing. The Institut für Pflanzenkultur takes part in work package 2 in the research on micro propagation and mycorrhiza fungi.
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