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Breeding of Freesia

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Freesia is a bulbous flower native to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, suitable for potted or cut flowers, Freesia is a beautiful plant with rich, colorful, fragrant flowers and a long flowering period. Freesia can be planted in gardens in warm areas as a ground ornamental flower, used as a flower bed, or natural planting; breeding new varieties of Freesia has great prospects for development.

Lifeasible is an integrated plant research company. With our advanced breeding platform, we aim to provide a variety of effective solutions for ornamental plant breeding. Currently, the solutions we provide have been widely used in Freesia breeding research and have greatly contributed to the development of the Freesia breeding industry.

Breeding of Freesia

Our breeding platform

  • Radiation breeding. We have used 60Co-γ radiation for radiation mutagenesis of Freesia and selected the appropriate amount of mutagenic irradiation to produce mutants with excellent traits through Freesia bulbs treated with 60Co-γ. Using tissue culture and asexual propagation methods, we found that the Freesia progeny produced by radiation mutagenesis have excellent traits that can be stably inherited from offspring. These traits include straight flowering stems, high flowering stems, high flower numbers, and early flowering, and can be directly propagated for use. In breeding new Freesia varieties, we employ the combination of radiation mutagenesis and tissue culture to accelerate the selection process greatly. This allows us to obtain many new Freesia varieties in a short period of time.
  • Hybrid breeding. Using hybrid breeding and tissue culture, we have selected and bred several new Freesia varieties with new flower colors, good adaptability, and good resistance to adversity. This is to optimize the structure of Freesia varieties and meet consumer demand for new flower Freesia varieties. At the same time, we utilize the combination of interspecific hybridization and radiation treatment to select excellent plants from the hybrid progeny. After several screenings, we have bred several new Freesia varieties, which have novel flower colors, tall and straight flower stems, large flower diameter, long flowering period, strong disease resistance and growth potential, and are not easily degraded. We have combined hybrid breeding and radiation breeding to accelerate Freesia breeding goals.

Our service workflow

Fig. 2. Our service workflow - Lifeasible

Advantages of our services

  • Many years of experience in ornamental flower breeding services.
  • An advanced and complete breeding platform, and carefully optimized experimental procedures.
  • One-stop service to save customer's time.

Lifeasible has many years of research experience in Freesia breeding. We use a combination of biotechnology and conventional breeding to conduct Freesia breeding research and have selected several excellent varieties of Freesia. If you are interested in us, please feel free to contact us.

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