From the first site visit to the first clean culture. From a single converted room to a production campus: design, paperwork and clearances, protocols and media, IP, equipment and training, using the methods that run our own production laboratory.
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We do not sell a fixed package. Each element of your lab is specified, sourced and tuned for your crops, output and site.
Every room exists to protect one step of the plant's journey. We design backwards from the culture, not forwards from the equipment list.
Selection, indexing, pre-treatment
Surface sterilisation, aseptic establishment
Repeated subculture on cytokinin-balanced medium
Auxin-driven root induction
Transition from humid vessel to open air
Material moves from dirty to clean to growing, and never back. This is the logic behind every floor plan we draw; real layouts are fitted to your building.
Typical starting points for plant tissue culture. We adjust them to species, scale and site.
| Area | Parameter | Typical specification |
|---|---|---|
| Transfer room | Work-zone air quality | HEPA-filtered laminar flow, ISO 5 (Class 100) at the work surface; positive pressure relative to adjoining rooms |
| Sterilisation | Media and tools | Steam autoclave at 121 °C, 15 psi; hold time set by volume (commonly 15 – 20 min) |
| Media | Chemistry | MS or species-specific basal salts, pH adjusted to about 5.8 before autoclaving, agar 0.7 – 0.8 % or liquid |
| Water | Quality | RO followed by DI or distilled water for media preparation |
| Growth room | Temperature | 25 ± 2 °C, air-conditioned with backup |
| Growth room | Light | Cool-white LED or fluorescent, roughly 30 – 60 µmol m⁻² s⁻¹ at shelf level, 16 h light / 8 h dark for most species |
| Hardening | Transition | High humidity with gradual reduction, shade 50 – 75 %, sterile or low-nutrient substrate |
| Power | Resilience | Dedicated circuits and UPS or generator for autoclave, laminar flow and growth-room cooling |
Nine stages. You can take the full programme or pick the stages you need.
From one converted room to a production campus. Start at the size that fits your budget and crop plan, and we design the first step so it can grow into the next.
One laminar flow cabinet, a compact autoclave, lit growth shelves and a media corner, all in one controlled room. The lowest-cost route to start real culture work, and the best place to prove a protocol before scaling.
A factory-fitted, insulated container divided into media, transfer and growth zones, with HVAC and electrical pre-installed. Delivered ready to plug in, relocatable, and expandable by adding units. Good for leased land, remote farms and fast starts.
Separate wash, media, transfer and culture rooms with one-way flow, a proper hardening area and written SOPs. The usual first commercial step for nurseries and agri-entrepreneurs.
Several transfer stations, large controlled growth rooms, a dedicated media kitchen, positive-pressure air handling, quality records and batch traceability, and greenhouse hardening capacity.
Zoned campus with automated media dispensing and washing, large-scale culture rooms, optional bioreactor or temporary-immersion systems, in-house indexing and QA labs, utility redundancy and hectares of hardening and nursery. Designed for certification and audit from day one.
Tissue culture plus virus indexing, molecular and analytical support, cryo or slow-growth germplasm storage, and documentation suited to publication and grant requirements.
Footprints and outputs are indicative and vary by crop, subculture cycle and layout. We confirm them in your feasibility note.
A lab that cannot legally sell plants is only a cost. We map which registrations and approvals apply to your state, structure and crops, prepare the documentation and coordinate the process with you and your advisers.
| Area | What it typically involves | Our role |
|---|---|---|
| Entity & business | Company, LLP or proprietorship; Udyam (MSME) registration; GST; bank and statutory registrations | Checklist and sequencing; coordination with your CA or company secretary |
| Land & building | Land-use or conversion status, building plan approval, panchayat or municipal permissions, trade licence | Drawings and technical notes your approvals need |
| Utilities | Electricity connection and load sanction, water source permissions | Load calculation and utility specification |
| Safety & environment | Fire safety clearance, state pollution control board consent where applicable, effluent and waste handling | Safety design, waste-handling plan, supporting data |
| Nursery & plant material | State nursery or seed-plant registration and licences where applicable, plant material sourcing records | Application support and record formats |
| Tissue culture certification | Recognition of the production facility and virus indexing under the DBT National Certification System for Tissue Culture Raised Plants (NCS-TCP), with accredited testing | Design the lab and records to meet recognition criteria; prepare for inspection |
| Quality systems | Documented SOPs, batch records, traceability; ISO 9001-style quality management; ISO/IEC 17025 for testing labs | Build the documentation system and train your QA lead |
| Quarantine & trade | Import permits and quarantine for germplasm, phytosanitary certification for export, customs and IEC for traders | Documentation guidance and process mapping |
| Plant varieties | Registration and benefit-sharing considerations under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001, and biodiversity-related permissions for certain species | Flag what applies to your crops and refer to specialist counsel |
Requirements differ by state, crop and business model, and rules change. We coordinate and prepare; formal legal advice should come from your own counsel.
Equipment does not make plants. Protocols do. We hand over the method as well as the room.
Who owns what should be written down before the first culture is started.
A lab is only as good as the people running it. Training starts before construction and continues after commissioning.
What the lab will demand, hiring profiles, costing
Aseptic technique, media preparation, subculture, in our laboratory
First batches run alongside your team
Records, contamination analysis, planning, yields
Periodic review, retraining, expansion support
Every lab we build can run on the Phytolabs Lab Manager: IoT control of the environment, laboratory management of every batch, and sales management of every plantlet, in one system and one login.
The suite is configured to your lab: modules, sensors and dashboards are chosen with you, and can be added as the lab grows. Our existing Lab Manager covers the laboratory core today.
Complete the requirements questionnaire. It takes about ten minutes and covers your site, crops, volumes, timeline and team. We review it before the discovery call, so the call is spent on decisions rather than basics. Engagements begin with an NDA.
Tell us roughly what you want to build. No obligation, and the answers stay confidential.
Start the Questionnaire →It depends mainly on the target output, the state of the building and the equipment you choose. A small learning lab and a commercial production lab differ by an order of magnitude. Complete the requirements questionnaire and we will come back with a rough range for your case.
Yes. The site survey tells us what can be reused and what needs civil or electrical changes. Many projects convert an existing room or shed.
We specify it, shortlist vendors and compare quotations. You decide where to buy. Media, growth regulators and consumables can be supplied from our own laboratory.
Yes. Training for technicians and supervisors is part of every engagement, along with protocols for your crops.
Yes. We take projects across India. Site visits are planned around the survey and commissioning stages.
