Facilities
In China, Mercurius owns 5 laboratories, as well as a group of greenhouse for potato minitubers tissue culture, all those 5 labs are scattered in northwest part of China, where the climate is suitable for potato growing and the pollution or contamination can be neglected.
Tissue culture laboratory
One complete tissue culture lab contains sterilization room, liquid filling and bottle washing room, air shower facility, cutting room, culture room, etc. All facilities must be sterilized before operation, and the labs adopts separated ventilation system to prevent air contamination to the microplants.
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Carts for microplant transfer |
Liquid medium filling |
Cutting table |
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Air shower room |
Culture racks |
Corridor |
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Ventilation system |
LED artificial light |
Cutting platform |
Greenhouse
When microplants are matured in the lab, they will be transplant into greenhouse for minituber growing. There are two types of greenhouse that we utilize: intellectual greenhouse for large scale minituber production, where the temperature, irrigation, lightening, humidity are all controlled by computer to save labor cost, and the manual greenhouse for the delicate minituber production, while all factors are controlled manually.
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Intellectual greenhouse |
Removable plant bed |
Before minituber harvest |
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Microplant transfer |
Seperation from Ground |
Before minituber harvest |
To avoid various contamination, all plants in the greenhouse are separated from the ground. Irrigation water and fertilizer are sterilized before using. Anti-pest mesh are placed in the ventilation entrance to minimize every potential chance of affection.
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