Succulent Tissue Culture

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Introduction.

We welcome you to the new website of Succulent Tissue Culture (S.T.C.).
Started in 1995 STC has grown to a medium-sized tissue culture laboratory mainly focussed on the in vitro multiplication of rare and endangered succulent plants.
STC has a state-of-the-art cleanroom facility and produces a growing number of rare and  endangered plants, some even being extinct in their natural habitat.

Tissue culture techniques offer us a range of different approaches to establish a reliable in vitro protocol to multiply all sorts of succulent plants. An experienced team of scientists is daily working on improving standard protocols, inventing new ways of production technology and implementing these to the ever-growing number of rare plants.

Our techniques vary from single axilliairy plant reproduction to organogenesis and embryogenesis on calli from a specific range of succulent plants.

Our aim is to provide interested collectors and whole-salers with extremely rare plants on one hand and to protect against illegal collection and plant destruction in habitat on the other hand.
With the use of tissue culture there is  less need to collect habitat plants and in this way STC hopes to contribute to keep the world heritage of succulent plants existing.

STC is a member of the Ducth organization Plantum NL and acts upon sales conditions from this group for the exclusive research on Tissue Culture products (see: www.plantum.nl/pdf/weefselkweek_engels.pdf   sales conditions and www.plantum.nl/pdf/weefselkweek_engelsio.pdf  for work being caried out in tissue culture).

Staff.

Ing. Robert Wellens
Ing. Robert Wellens, director of STC, studied botany, plant breeding and tissue culture techniques at the Wageningen University, is the founder of STC and has a degree in management techniques and biotechnology.

Teresa Sierra
Teresa Sierra, greenhouse manager of STC, studied languages in the past –and uses her knowledge and skills for answering Italian, Spanish or French requests-, she is now in charge of our 1200 m2 greenhouse facility and does all our translation work.

Alphonsina Tettelaar
Alphonsina Tettelaar, lab manager of STC, studied specialized courses on tissue culture and has over 10 years of experience in commercial and scientific tissue culture techniques, she now mainly runs the tissue culture lab.

Variegates

One of the top inventions of STC is the induction of variegation into (succulent) plants.
Robert Wellens started his first experiments years ago and finally achieved to end up with a successful protocol of producing all sorts of variegates, not only succulent plants.
This unique technique offers an enormously potential in further (succulent) plant breeding for the ornamental market. Most of the variegates that STC produces are sold in the plant auction.