WELCOME TO POLYGENOMX AUSTRALIA
Faster growth rates mean shorter harvest cycles and enhanced land utilization
WELCOME TO POLYGENOMX AUSTRALIA
Faster growth rates mean shorter harvest cycles and enhanced land utilization
Paulownia trees Super Clone
It Started Here
It’s naturally fast growth. Paulownia trees can grow extremely rapidly in their first few years, after which growth rates slow.
Malcomb Lamont had developed clonal lines of Paulownia that were originally sourced from recognized superior lines in China. A survey carried out in China over a span of 30 years showed 890 clonal lines from which the top performing 24 lines were selected. PolyGenomx technical team has been able to access the top 5 from these and has been consistently working with and developing them over the last 12 years. What has emerged is several lines that have been independently verified and shown to grow at least 30 to 60% faster than their diploid parent and to have a much larger average leaf size.
Just The Beginning
Faster growth rates mean shorter harvest cycles and enhanced land utilization. For example, a wood pulping operation based on the use of elite diploid lines of Acacia mangium may enjoy a seedling-to-harvest cycle of 6 years whereas, if it were using a polygenic variety of the same species, the harvest cycle would be reduced to 4 years. In a 12-year rotation, diploids would yield two harvests while the polygenomics would yield three, for the same inputs of water, nutrients, labour, and capital.
Offspring inherit these new characteristics
What are Polygenomic Plants?
Polyploid trees are Nature’s response to environmental stress.
Individual trees, when subject to sufficient stress may occasionally respond by “doubling their cellular DNA”. Adding extra complete copies of genomes to its cells provides such individuals with greater robustness, faster growth