Our Unique, State of the art micropropagation:

White Technology, LLC uses a unique and superior tissue culture method to produce millions of healthy, ready-for-the-field plantlets. This superior micropropagation technique truly sets White Technology, LLC apart from biomass feedstock competitors.

Why Choose White Technology:

Until now, planting large acreages of Miscanthus or Giant Reed were impractical due to the labor intensive nature of harvesting the rhizomes, and over planting to ensure adequate planting density was required. Along with this, replanting of material was necessary if initial material failed to emerge. Rhizomatic planting was the only method available until now.

Our technology allows the mass production of plants for viable farm operations. For the first time in history large numbers of plants can be ordered, received, and planted in an economically sound and feasible manner. White Technology's exclusive micropropagation technique is superior to other methods for 3 significant characteristics. White Technology operates around the three Q's: quality of product, quantity of plantlets, and quick reproduction process.

Quality: Unlike planting rhizomes or canes for plant reproduction White Technology's micropropagation method produces a healthy plant that assures no disease or virus spread from field to field. We take great satisfaction in producing a product with a virus index of 0.

Virus Indexing
 

The process of indexing (testing) a crop for a series of specific plant viruses usually involves biological and biochemical testing of leaf tissue and microscopic examination by a certified expert. The index is simply a list of critical viruses present. Test kits are available for a number of specific plant viruses that are as simple as dipping test strips in plant fluid made from crushed leaves, where the test strips are similar to Litmus strips used to test acidity or a pregnancy test. More frequently plants are tested for viruses by inoculating known sensitive "indicator plants" and looking for symptoms and by an immunological technique called "Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay" or ELISA. Standardized testing methods have not been developed for all plant viruses of concern. In many cases plant samples must still be sent to specialized plant viral diagnostic laboratories to determine whether or not they are virus free.
Plant viruses are abundant in nature and are often spread from one plant to the next by insects or other vectors that break the surface of leaves when feeding on plant material. Within the plant tissue culture laboratory all tools, vessels, and nutrients are sterilized, and, since the plant tissue culture laboratory is aseptic, no new viruses are introduced. Therefore, it is safe to assume that once index testing has shown a clone of a given plant variety to be free of viruses, the laboratory produced progeny from this clone will remain virus free as long as it stays within a protected tissue culture laboratory environment.
A second layer of virus protection that we can claim for our products is that the original clones are virus free. This is due in part to the unique properties of our method of selecting meristem tissue from which to introduce lab cultures. In general, viruses inhabit mature fully-differentiated tissues of a plant and are spread within plants through the vascular system that is still missing from undifferentiated meristems. As a result, virus free clones can be established prior to testing through the use of simple treatments such as heat-therapy and through proper selection of undifferentiated tissue during laboratory micropropagation.

Quantity: From the state of the art lab in Cayce, South Carolina White Technology is able to reproduce plants on a mass scale to fill large acres of land with prodigious energy crops.

Quick Production: White Technology's rapid production process allows the fulfillment of large orders of plantlets in a very short period of time.

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