II. Platform for Corporatizing the Cultivation Management
(I) Diseases and Pests Diagnosis and Management Technology
Businesses in need of individual diagnosis on diseases and pests and advice for preventive management
Orchid suffer infections from a number of pathogens in the growing process, like soft rot bacteria, Fusarium wilt bacteria, anthrax bacteria, phytophthora bacteria and viruses, which cause significant loss to the farmers. Our team speedily produce DNA from bacteria sample, using specific primers to conduct PCT or RT-PCR and greatly simplify the steps of nucleic acid extraction. It’s simpler and faster, a technology that offers speedy, accurate, sensitive and immediate pathogen identification and detection information for references in choosing preventive measures or treatment.
Furthermore, experts with bountiful experience will inspect on the spot to offer advice on individual disease and pests, as well as on preventive management. The widespread application of this technology will improve the selection and usage rate of healthy seedlings and exterminate diseases and pests.
Technology Service:
(1) On-the- Spot Counseling Service: Diagnosis and Advice on Diseases, Pests and Preventive
Management
(2) Detection and Identification of Viruses and Bacterium: Detecting CymMV and ORSV
viruses
(II) Fertilizer Nutrition Management Platform for Orchid
We serve:
Businesses in need of fertilizer / nutrition management counseling or establishing orchid fertilizer detection system
Illustration:
Fertilizer and nutrition can induce many physiological changes in orchids, the NPK ratio affects not only the sizes of the plants, the blossoming, even in the physiological reaction to transportation. Many varieties develop a lot of changes in form and appearance when sold to other places, so it is necessary to standardize the fertilizer usage and procedure management. It helps clarify the growth problems developed when shipped to another place. For example, proper fertilizer management helps solve the temperature acclimation pf Phalaenopsis before storage and shipping and the photometric domestication after storage and shipping, the freshness maintenance of cut orchids and proper temperature / conditions when being stored and transported for a long period of time in the dark. Professor Y.C.A. Chang has developed an easy detecting method on the fertilizer ratio in watergrass medium especially for orchids.
Technology Service:
(1) On-the- Spot Counseling Service: Diagnosing fertilizer-related issues and counseling on
physiological changes,
(2) Building the orchid fertilizer detection system and standardize fertilizer applying management.
(III) Academic-Industrial Orchid Biotechnology Platform
We serve:
orchid farmers, biotechnology companies
Illustration:
The academic-industrial orchid biotech alliance bring orchid farmers, government officers, academicians and researchers together. Through periodical interchange and social media, members share information about orchid cultivation and horticulture-related information. Since its establishment, cultivation properties and market preference of many commercial varieties have been accumulated, as well as the cultivation and management experience of members, related databanks of laws and regulations, etc. In the future, through the collaboration with Taiwan Orchid Varieties Commercial Service Center and AI-based breeding technology and greenhouse cultivation system, a databank of orchid varieties and cultivation properties can be established. The applications can increase breeding precision and improve the quality of mass-produced seedlings and enhance the international competitiveness of Taiwan orchid industry. The technologies developed by our research center – “orchid fragrance extraction” and “orchid embryonic essence extraction and evaluation” – can be used to develop orchid biotech products and we provide technological counseling, quality control and detection, as well as the promotion of orchid biotech products.
Technology Service:
(1) Comprehensive management of Orchid Productive Features
(2) Cultivation properties, transportation properties, basic properties data analysis of varieties
(3) Establishment of a smart cloud databank
(4) Technological counseling, quality control and detection of biotech products