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Tissue culture makes it possible to create plant clones with identical characteristics.
But until now it has been too expensive for use in commercial forestry. Each group of cultured cells generates a cluster of shoots, which must be individually plucked and placed in a growth medium, where they turn into seedlings. Monfori Nusantra, a joint venture between the agricultural chemicals giant Monsanto and ForBio, an Australian plant biotechnology company, has found a way to use robots for some of the work. To help automate the process, ForBio has s elected cultures that produce a single elongated shoot, which can be handled by a three-armed robot operating in a sterile Handiwork environment. The robots drastically cut the cost of what had been a labour-intensive technique.