The Flora Centre, which is located in MINT Tech-Park, comprises the Flora Vitro Laboratory, GENETIKA Flora Garden and Plaza GENETIKA.
Flora Vitro Laboratory
Flora Vitro Laboratory is a commercial tissue culture laboratory for production of plant seedlings through in vitro techniques. It is equipped with office rooms, meeting room, media preparation room, washing area as well as aseptic/clean room, which consists of transfer room and three incubation rooms. These rooms can hold up to 225,000 tissue culture plants at one time with a production capacity of 1.2 million plants a year. This laboratory has been fully operational since June 2002 and provides the following services :
• Developing plant micropropagation techniques
• Supplying tissue culture seedling,
• Undertaking contract research for interested customers
GENETIKA Flora Garden
GENETIKA Flora Garden was set up in 1997 with the objective to establish an efficient seedling production system, and was launched in 2000 by Y ABhg. Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali. It comprises two shade houses and five greenhouses surrounded by beautiful landscapes and various mini gardens. Currently, there are about 100 species of plants in the garden including 16 new varieties which were obtained through induced mutation technique, and these include Hibiscus rosa-sinesis 'Siti Hasmah RedShine' ,Hibiscus rosa-sinesis 'Siti Hasmah Pinky Beauty', Cordylines terminalis 'Mantap' Cordylines terminalis I Jaguh', Duran to repens I Marginate', Tradescantia spathecea ISobri' and others.
Plaza GENETIKA
Plaza GENETIKA was established as an outdoor event venue and also serves as a venue for activities such as aerobic exercise and recreational activities.
Services, technical advice and consultancy offered;
- Service for N-15 and C-14 analysis
- Service for DNA sequencing
- Service for microbial Identification
- Supply of bacterial culture e.g. Bacillus megaterium,
- Supply of gaharu inducer
- Supply of potted mutant plants (hibiscus, cordylines, orchids)
- Supply of tissue culture seedlings e.g. gaharu, orchid, pineapple and banana
- Supply of selected mushroom seeds
- Consultancy and training in plant tissue culture and mushroom cultivation
- Consultancy and training in Bioreactor system for plant propagation
- Consultancy and training in cultivation of oyster and shiitake mushroom
