EXPERTISE
By choosing Symbiont Plant Research Services, you’ll benefit from personalised, expert guidance in plant science and horticulture, ensuring your projects thrive from seed to harvest and beyond.
Postharvest Fruit Physiology
In-depth knowledge of the complex and interacting ‘farm to fork’ factors that influence fruit quality at retail, including the biochemical and microstructural changes that occur in fruit along the way.
Advanced Plant Propagation
Experience in developing production protocols for difficult-to-propagate plants through innovative approaches to seed germination, cutting propagation and tissue culture.
Plant-Microbe Interactions
Cellular-level understanding of beneficial and pathogenic plant-microbe relationships, and their impact on crop health and fruit quality.
Expertise in developing new horticultural crops to Australia, from propagation and plant production, through to trial site establishment and monitoring, agronomic and postharvest evaluations, varietal selection and Plant Breeders Rights protection, and preparation of ‘grower guides’.
New Crop Development
Detailed knowledge of the unique opportunities and challenges posed by intensive crop production under protective enclosures including poly tunnels, hi-tech glasshouses and retractable-roof structures.
Protected Cropping
Experience in adapting the built environment to accommodate healthy and sustainable green roof and green wall plant communities to offset the urban heat island effect and encourage biodiversity in our cities.