"Avocado propagation is a major bottleneck because if you do it traditionally, it takes you 18 months and you get one plant from one cutting. What we have done, we take only one centimetre of a cutting and we can get 500 avocado trees.

After successfully commercialising it inAustralia, now we have given the licence (of our tissue-culture technology for avocados) to Grupo Hijuelas in Latin America (…) We are very excited and looking forward to this partnership (and) I believe this is just a start of this journey with this nice company.

It's not just about avocado propagation of these rootstocks, but how can we meaning fully deliver through this collaboration to keep on making an impact as far as the global plant supply of root stocks is concerned, (11:39) the new rootstocks coming to market.

So very proud to have partnered with them to see this technology not only benefitQueensland and Australia but also globally to make a difference."

"Without a doubt, having a state-of-the-art in vitro laboratory at Grupo Hijuelas provides important phytosanitary security for the material that is being distributed nationally, in different fruit and ornamental species. This assures us as a service that the plants have guaranteed phyto sanitary security.

We are seeing new temperature management technologies for plant growth. This opens up a whole new alternative for shortening the time it takesto introduce material, striking a balance between the phytosanitary safety required by the Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero and the speed of release, which is what the market is demanding for the replacement of new species and varieties."

"Here we can see a very important nursery, Viveros Hijuelas in the Valparaíso Region, which is doing some very interesting work using advanced levels of technology. They are putting the country in a very good position, because their products are exported abroad, including small fruit trees, large fruit trees, and ornamental plants to America and also Europe."