Our lab produces millions of tissue culture starts for many Duarte Nursery products and conducts research into plant improvement and variety development for the nursery customers.

Dry Creek Laboratory’s main focus is on micropropagation to meet the demand for clonal rootstocks for our Prunus varieties, pistachio, and walnut. The laboratory has expanded Duarte Nursery’s ability to continue its “growth through innovation” by making micro propagated clonal rootstocks commercially available for many fruit and nut trees.

In addition to micropropagation, Dry Creek Labs also expands the nursery’s research capabilities into other areas such as virus elimination and invitro selection of rootstocks that can better tolerate environmental stress factors, such as salt and drought.