In 2020, Michurinsk, Tambov Region, is scheduled to open a Biotechnology Center for the production of virus-free garden microplants.
Currently, construction work on the construction of the center goes for the personal funds of the center.
Microclonal plant propagation laboratories will be located in the new biotechnology center. improved copies per year. The area of the heated greenhouse of the center will be 0.7 hectares.
It is planned that the center will become the largest not only in the Russian Federation, but also in the eastern part of Europe.
He will be able to provide healthy seedlings as the Tambov region, and other regions of Russia. As expected, the center will be commissioned in the first half of next year.
This is stated in the message of the deputy director of the research and production center (SPC) "Agropischeprom" Artyom Chukhlantsev.
He said that the scientists plan to improve and reproduce in vitro domestic varieties of berry crops: blackberries, raspberries, honeysuckle, actinidia, goji and others. Recreated seedlings will be further used in industrial plantings.