Capabilities

Terra Garden Biotech's strength, knowledge and capabilities in the plant-based industry, especially in the application of cutting-edge technologies (e.g. precision technologies, including biotechnology), allows the introduction of its latest concept, "THE BIOTECH FACILITY DESIGNERS". This is a one-stop center, providing total solution for all "your own" biotech facility requirements by a consortium of the best experts in their respective fields.

The following are some of the services provided, which are critical for the development of any (plant) biotech-based industry:

Detailed description of the various sectors Terra Garden Biotech is able to provide planning, programming and management services are as follows:

1. Design, supervision & construction of (biotechnology) laboratories:

All biotech-based R&D or commercial activity requires laboratory space. The overall and specific layouts of laboratories are vital in ensuring smooth work flow and efficient (and effective) utilisation of space. Terra Garden Biotech has vast experience in the design and construction of various types of laboratories (both for R&D and commercial application).

2. Design and fabrication (or manufacture) of laboratory accessories:

Laboratory layout plans should be carefully drafted, with due consideration to the layout and design of the necessary equipments and lab-fitting.  However, some of the accessories may require custom-designing, to suit the individual operation needs, and this is our speciality. Through our network of manufacturers and suppliers, Terra Garden Biotech has access to a wide variety of custom-designed accessories and solutions.

3. Laboratory work-flow management and staff training programmes:

The key to successful laboratory management is in the drafting of a comprehensive work-flow programme, for the entire laboratory, and/or for a specific section. Through these work-flow programmes, one would be able to monitor and manage all activities with great success. The next equally important issue is staff training - adequate training is required to ensure profitable production. Terra Garden Biotech has vast experience in work-flow programming, laboratory management systems, as well as staff training.

4. Design & construction of Smart tropical greenhouse system:

The failure of many R&D programmes under greenhouse conditions in the humid-tropics can be attributed to the harsh environment (high temperatures & high humidity) within tropical greenhouses. Therefore, through the development of suitable tropicalised greenhouse systems, suitable environments can be created for successful evaluation of R&D products under controlled conditions. Terra Garden Biotech is proud to be the first in Malaysia to develop its own uniquely designed "Smart Tropical Greenhouse System" utilising the equally unique EcoCool climate control system.

5. Design & construction of Tropical GMO containment greenhouses:

All R&D and commercial activities related to the production and/or development of genetically modified organisms (GMO) would require (by law) to be tested, evaluated and monitored under strictest conditions of confinement. Therefore, to evaluate GMOs, there is an absolute need for the development of tropicalised GMO containment greenhouse systems. Again, Terra Garden Biotech is proud to be the first in the country to have developed its own uniquely designed "GMPlant Containment Greenhouse" with a built-in gene-analysis facility; a project supported by the Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysia.

6. Design & construction of tropicalised TC-plant weaning systems:

Plant tissue culture techniques (especially micropropagation) are now routinely applied for the mass production of elite crop plants for value added agricultural and horticultural crops. However, the success of all/any mass propagation system very much depends on a highly efficient weaning  system. This is necessary to acclimatise the delicate plantlets to the harsh (outside) environment, prior to field planting. Terra Garden Biotech, jointly with FRIM, is the first to successfully design and construct an effective and efficient tropicalised weaning system for acclimatising tissue-cultured plants.

7. Design & construction of commercial and showcase growing facilities:

The success of any plant based industry is often associated with the availability of an efficient and effective growing environment. Such facilities, not only have to be operationally effective, but also requires the element of show-casing to portray an image of a professional industry player. In this aspect, Terra Garden Biotech fortunately (through its association within the Terra Garden Group of Companies) leads the development of both "show-case" and "commercial" growing facility".

8. Design & construction of showcase (botanical) gardens:

The greatness of Malaysia's biodiversity can only be realised if collected, nurtured, propagated and made available for further investigation, and R&D activities. The importance of these valuable assets can only be fully realised through proper presentation (or if grown in a show-case garden, e.g. like in the Kew Gardens, of the United Kingdom). Again, Terra Garden Biotech, (through its association with Terra Garden Sdn. Bhd., the founders of the Malaysian concept garden, called "Neo Nusantara" and the creators of design gardens) is capable of designing and constructing protected botanical gardens.

9. Development of specific functional food (from rainforest botanicals):

The wealth of our biodiversity can only be realised if it is used in a sustainable manner towards the development of value added products, such as functional food additives to address specific human (health) disorders. Terra Garden Biotech, through its sister company, RainForest Botanics Sdn Bhd, is proud to be involved in a strategic programme with the University of Massachusetts (USA), in the development of functional food as well as herbal remedies (including, but not limited to drug development) from selected botanicals from our rainforest.

10. Instant Tissue-culture Lab & Weaning System Design and Commission

A mobile standalone micropropagation facility that allows you to conduct R&D, and commercial plant production on the go, almost anywhere, almost immediately.

Our main objective of the Instant TC Lab is to provide a total solution for start-up companies in the plant-based industry's mass propagation sectors, i.e. to create leaders in the production of high quality, superior planting stocks for forest plantation programmes, and modern agriculture.

The Instant TC Lab consists of the following facilities:
      
- Changing Area
- Media Preparation Area
- Culture Transfer Area
- Culture Growth Area