David Montgomery, founder of Technico , has received an award for research and development from the Australian government. The company controls five tissue-culture facilities globally in which it developed a method to speed up growth of potato seeds by 26 times. With this breakthrough the five to seven years usually required to build up potato reserves has been dramatically reduced.
AUSTRALIA: Company which developed fast growing potato seed gets award
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