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Breeding of Bearded Irises

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The bearded irises (Iris germanica) are a perennial herb. It is native to central and southern Europe. Bearded irises with large flowers, bright and colorful, deep purple, pure white, peach, and other colors, is an excellent ground cover plant. It can be grown in pots and is an essential material for cutting flowers.

Lifeasible is a comprehensive plant research company, and we have extensive experience in ornamental horticulture plant breeding services. Currently, there are still few good varieties of bearded irises, and we offer various effective solutions in guiding the breeding of good varieties of bearded irises.

Breeding of Bearded Irises

Our breeding platforms

  • Somatic hybridization

In bearded irises breeding, we have overcome the problem of unaffinity in traditional sexual crosses of bearded irises through somatic cell hybridization. Using this technology, we have expanded the range of parents for bearded irises breeding. So far, we have bred several varieties of bearded irises based on somatic cell hybridization. For example, we have obtained somatic hybrids of Calamus and bearded irises by protoplast fusion technology, which provides new research ideas for breeding new varieties of bearded irises.

  • Radiation breeding

We have used gamma radiation to irradiate healing tissues and shoots obtained from bearded organ culture, resulting in mutant bearded irises plants with other phenotypic characteristics. The leaves and flowers of the mutant bearded irises will appear altered to varying degrees. We offer radiation breeding techniques that are currently, in effect used in the breeding of new iris varieties.

  • Transgenic breeding

Using transgenic technology, we aim to breed bearded irises varieties with high tolerance to salt, drought, and cold. For can better resist the effects of adverse environmental and climatic conditions on the growth and development of bearded irises. At the same time, with the use of transgenic technology to breed highly resistant iris, we have expanded the range of bearded irises suitable for cultivation. In transgenic bearded irises breeding, we co-culture suspension culture of bearded irises with Agrobacterium receptor state carrying GUS gene encoding β-glucosidase and thaumatin can other screening marker selectable marker gene, by testing generally within a few months can obtain multiple transgenic plants of bearded irises with the target traits and characteristics.

  • Ploidy breeding

We currently use polyploids in the ploidy breeding of bearded irises and have obtained hybrids of tetraploid Siberian iris and variegated iris. The ploidy breeding, we offer is important for breeding bearded irises to speed up the breeding process, shorten the breeding cycle, and improve the selection efficiency. Relying on Iris ploidy breeding, we aim to produce new varieties of bearded irises with some new phenotypes, such as drought resistance, pest, and disease resistance, altered flowering, organ size, altered biomass, etc., to make them more suitable for their own needs or for agricultural production.

Our service workflow

Fig. 2. Our service workflow - Lifeasible

Advantages of our services

  • Strong hardware strength. We have a standardized laboratory and an experienced technical team.
  • Scientific rigor. We are equipped with a team of highly skilled personnel and advanced experimental equipment.
  • Reasonable prices. We provide reasonable prices and guaranteed services with clear quotations.

Lifeasible is currently successfully applying advanced technologies such as transgenesis and cloning to breeding research on bearded irises and has selected and cultivated several new varieties of salt-tolerant, cold-tolerant, disease-resistant, and pollution-resistant iris. We aim to breed new varieties of bearded irises with excellent characteristics. If you are interested in us, please feel free to contact us.

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