Meet the scientist ensuring avocado stays on breakfast tables around the world, using stem cell technology to speed up tree production.
"When I came to Australia from India in 2000 ... at that time in India there were only 40 avocado trees in the entire country," Professor Mitter said."They are my avocado babies that will grow into avocado trees with the most delicious fruit for your breakfast."So when Professor Mitter was told by growers that it was difficult to get enough plants to keep up with demand, she decided to do something about it.
The new stem cell multiplication method reduces the time for new avocado varieties to reach commercial orchards from 10 years to three years or less. "Our Queensland-owned, trade-secret, tissue-culture system takes a single cutting and can create 500 new plants in eight to 10 months," she told
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