Much has been written and more has been said about tissue culture. Now let’s talk about TERNPC. What is TERNPC? The “Technology of Efficient and Rapid Non-test tube Plant Cloning” (TERNPC), as its name shows, is a rapid plant cloning technology without test tubes, and it is greatly different from tissue culture. No test tube means no lab needed. No lab means no expensive equipment, complex apparatus and more professional personnel needed. Finally LOW COST! That is why we should talk about TERNPC.

    TERNPC was first invented by Professor Li Changxiao, who is a tissue culture scientist with ten-year experience in the application of tissue culture, and taught such college courses as Cell Biology, Cell Genetics, Molecular Biology years ago. And his 25-year hard research and work on plant asexual propagation brought about the birth of TERNPC.

     TERNPC can not only overcome nearly all the shortages of tissue culture and conventional methods but keep all their merits as well.

     Like tissue culture, TERNPC uses a micro-plant material—a 3-10 mm long section of plant stem with a leaf—as an explant, which is directly grown on the sand bed to radicate other than in the test tube. A few days later, a seedling will grow up in the substrate and can be transplanted to the field anywhere.

    The seedling often has 3-6 roots, sometimes 30-40. Due to the highly-developed root system, the seedlings are very strong and the survival rate is remarkably high, always between 85-100%.

    With simple facilities, TERNPC can work well in poor conditions around the year whether it is in the south or north with different altitudes, different soils, different climates or different temperatures (-35~42 ℃).

    Besides, simple operational steps make it easier for common people to master. One person without professional knowledge can take all or part of the work after a short-time training. The speed of inoculation will be 3-5 times as fast as tissue culture. A technician well trained for 4 months can produce 30,000-100,000 seedlings each month.

    In a word, the most significant characteristics of TERNPC can be described as low cost, rapid propagation speed, high efficiency, considerable benefit and easily reaching large scale.

    So far more than 650 varieties of plants have been successfully propagated with TERNPC and with an annual growth of 50 in number. A period of 18 years is not a long time. However, even in this relatively short period of time, TERNPC has been adapted to various conditions, and 18-year application practice has made it more and more perfect.

    An area, where TERNPC promises to play an important role in the future, is growing seedlings for reforestation, orchards, and ornamental shrubbery. TERNPC  can also be used for the preservation and the expansion of rare plants and economic plants, etc. In the future, more and more people will come to know the value of TERNPC!