Yunlin research center bolsters Taiwan’s floriculture industry

Taiwan Today
Date: September 06, 2019

The Floriculture Research Center in western Taiwan’s Yunlin County creates flowers boasting better disease resistance and drought tolerance. (Staff photo/Chen Mei-ling)

Phalaenopsis Kenneth Schubert Tari-12 is found in only one place in the world: the Floriculture

Research Center in western Taiwan’s Yunlin County. Featuring delicate petals patterned in pink, red and white, the hybrid orchid is among several experimental strains set for possible commercial cultivation in around three years’ time.
 
Established by Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute under the Cabinet-level Council of Agriculture, FRC opened its doors in 2001. The center hosts laboratories, greenhouses and net houses, aviary-like plots of cultivated land protected by giant meshes, where new varieties of plants are developed and reproduced at scale through tissue culture.
 
Phalaenopsis Kenneth Schubert Tari-12 already has one avowed fan: Nuttha Potapohn, part of a recent six-member study group to the center from Thailand. “I am very impressed,” she said. “It has clusters of smaller blooms and a very nice color and fragrance.”.    [FULL  STORY]