Daylilies, azaleas and other ornamental plants grow in the new greenhouse at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research.
These flowering plants started as tissue cultures in a lab at the Institute for Sustainable and Renewable Resources (ISRR) at the Institute.
Eventually, they would go to the commercial market.
The Institute is negotiating contracts with the Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association (VNLA) to bulk up tissue culture production for triploid daylilies and different varieties of azaleas.
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