A Future for Fig Farms in Malaysia

By Dr. Chew Bee Lynn

February 2021 VOICES OF USM
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RESEARCHERS FROM THE School of Biological Sciences at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) have developed tissue culture techniques to produce healthy fig plants from novel varieties.1 Their progress on that front has been so good that the institution is currently expanding the number of high-quality novel cultivars from tissue culture for the commercial market.Plant tissue culture technology as such is known to yield clones from novel varieties at a consistent and faster rate, and allows manipulation of media formulation and plant...

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Dr. Chew Bee Lynn

School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia

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