Rahan Meristem
Breeding and Propagation of Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Trees
Company Overview
Snapshot
Founded in January 1974, Rahan Meristem operates with 51–200 employees. The company specializes in plant biotechnology and propagation, and in July 2020, its partner Banarica reported success in mitigating Panama Disease after field trials in the Philippines.
Business overview
Rahan Meristem is a plant biotechnology and propagation company focused on tissue culture, molecular genetics, and breeding. The company is a major global producer of banana plantlets through tissue culture, with its selected clones in high demand across tropical regions for export-grade desert banana fruit. Beyond bananas, Rahan Meristem also produces plantains, deciduous fruit trees, olive trees, sweet potatoes, citrus, avocados, and stevia. It provides laboratory and agro-technical services, including crop breeding, viral cleaning and diagnostics, true-to-type DNA fingerprint analysis, and propagation of transgenic plants, serving the agriculture and food technologies sector.
Strategic signal
In November 2017, Rahan Meristem formed a joint venture with Future Farm to breed and propagate elite clones of cannabis, securing a $440,000 investment. This strategic move signals the company's expansion into new high-value agricultural markets, leveraging its expertise in plant propagation and genetics to address emerging opportunities in the cannabis industry.
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- What is Rahan Meristem's primary focus?
- Rahan Meristem specializes in plant biotechnology and propagation, focusing on tissue culture, molecular genetics, and breeding of tropical and subtropical fruit trees.
- What significant partnership did Rahan Meristem announce in 2017?
- In November 2017, Rahan Meristem formed a joint venture with Future Farm to breed and propagate elite clones of cannabis, securing a $440,000 investment.
- What were the results of the field trials with Evogene?
- In September 2017, Evogene and Rahan Meristem announced positive results in second-year field trials addressing Black Sigatoka disease in bananas, with plans to utilize these results for genome editing.
- What success did Rahan Meristem and Banarica report in 2020?
- In July 2020, Rahan Meristem and its partner Banarica reported success in mitigating Panama Disease after field trials in the Philippines.
- When was Rahan Meristem founded?
- Rahan Meristem was founded in January 1974.