Breeding

Cloning

Distributing

World wide

continuous plant innovation through our own breeding programs and cooperation with breeders worldwide

highly specialized in tissue culture solutions

delivering high quality plant material all over the world

blooming by our worldwide network of experienced people

Mission Statement

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About Deroose Plants

About Deroose PlantsDeroose Plants has grown from a modest family owned company to a well-established name in horticulture with branches in Europe, the United States and China. We propagate and distribute a wide range of plant varieties all over the world.Having experience for years with a broad range of crops, Deroose Plants belongs today to the world top for tissue culture propagation. We strive to give you the best services for plant tissue culture initation, proprietary propagation and growing and developping of new and improved cultivars. Deroose Plants never shies away from challenges and creativity in all its aspects which forms the basis of the company’s philosophy.

Innovation through breedingThrough our own breeding program and by collaboration with the best breeders, Deroose Plants can offer a broad assortment of innovative and exclusive products. At the same time, Deroose Plants works with top growers, located all over the world. This allows us to put new products into the market on as large a scale as possible. Matching breeding with innovating tissue culture techniques enables the selection of the right varieties with the desired characteristics, enhancing larger and faster yields compared to conventional planting material.

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About Deroose Plants

Tissue culture solutionsDeroose plants specialises in in vitro initiation of plant cultures, propagation, and rooting under controlled environmental conditions. Through micro propagation we want to provide you in abundance with uniform, disease free and high quality plants.In collaboration with several agricultural universities, Deroose Plants conducts continuous research in the breeding and propagation of plants. This research has a threefold purpose: supporting the breeding activity, improving the tissue culture techniques for the propagation of plants, and acquiring more knowledge about the cultivation of newly developed and existing plants.

Producing on 3 continents for worldwide supplyDeroose Plants offers the strength of an international group. We own and operate tissue culture labs and greenhouses in Belgium, China and Florida. For each request we can appeal to our worldwide network of renowned research institutions and universities, top growers and off course our own team of researchers and staff. Deroose Plants hosts a strong logistics team. By distributing the plants in the fastest way under the best circumstances, Deroose Plants is able to deliver a high quality product anywhere in the world.

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Tissue Culture multiplication – R&D centre

The company’s Research & Development center is located in Sleidinge, near Ghent. Our researchers develop, in close collaboration with the Universities of Ghent and Leuven, new techniques to master the propagation of ‘recalcitrant’ plants; tissue culture hardening; in vitro acclimatization; autotrophic growth ; etcetera. We specialize in the development of specific protocols and clean stocks.

“If no one can Tissue Culture a certain plant specie, ask Deroose Plants”

All our products are delivered in consideration with the specific needs of our customers. Working together with our customers to find the best solution for each product is key to our business. We have the facilities to provide material ex laboratory as well as hardened young plants in different stages. Out of our production facility in the United States of America and China, we also grow and distribute finished products.

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Hardening and growing of young plants – from Lab to Customer

In order to control our standard of production and serve our customers, we harden and grow our young plants for the horticulture sector in our own greenhouses before shipping them to our customers in the sub region (Asia, USA and Europe). In this way we are able to control our production cycle and deliver top quality products.

Thanks to our association with the plantation company Siat (www.siat-group.com), and our scientific collaboration programs (PalmElit, CIRAD, VIB, KULeuven, and others), the next big step in our company’s history will be the establishment of a new production unit on the African continent in the near future. This unit will accompany our growth on the African continent, mainly in plantation and food crops. Being close to our customers to serve them in the best possible way is key to our business model. Deroose Plants aims to become the reference for high quality planting material in West-Africa, selling to both smallholder farmers and big plantation companies.

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Tissue Culture multiplication – Crops

Indoor PlantsDeroose Plants offers a complete line of flowering and foliage varieties: Bromeliads, Orchids, Spathiphyllum, Succulents, Nepenthes, and many others

Agricultural crops for temperate climate zonesWe have experience with potato, artichoke, hops, rhubarb, stevia and other herbs, strawberries, …

Fruit and Plantation Crops for the tropicsAnanas MD2, Musa, Hevea brasiliensis, Eucalyptus (paper industry), Miscanthus (biomass production), cotton (Research program for Bayer), … and we have started the tissue culture multiplication of Elaeis Guineensis (the Oil Palm).

We have experience with more than 100 different species and over 3,000 different cultivars.

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Our Partners

Our Scientific Partners include:• University of Gent (UGent): Departments of Plant Production and Applied Bioscience:

http://www.horticulture.ugent.be/ and http://www.invitro.ugent.be/• KULeuven: Department of Crop Biotechnics:

http://www.biw.kuleuven.be/onderzoek/plantenbiotechniek.aspx• VIB (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie): www.vib.be• ILVO (Instituut voor Landbouw- en Visserijonderzoek): http://www.ilvo.vlaanderen.be/• PalmElit: www.palmelit.com• CIRAD (through our shareholder Siat): www.cirad.fr

Our Bankers: BNP Parisbas Fortis, ING, KBC, BMI/SBI and Farm Credit (USA)

Our Shareholders:• Kalahari bvba (Reginald Deroose) : 11 %• nv Siat sa (www.siat-group.com) : 81%• Jadel bvba : 8 %

CEO: Jacques Ruth

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Contact us

Deroose Plants NV (headquarter)

Email: info@derooseplants.com Address: Droogte 139

B-9940 EvergemBelgium

Tel: +32 9 357 7447Fax :+32 9 357 6866

Deroose Plants Laboratorium

Address: Weststraat 129AB-9940 SleidingeBelgium

Tel +32 9 357 7671Fax +32 9 357 2339

Shanghai Flower Port - Deroose Plants

Email: info@derooseplantschina.comAddress: No 2 Zhendong Road

Donghai State Farm Nanhui District201303 ShanghaiChina

Tel: +86 (0)21 5829 6140Fax: +86 (0)21 5829 6133

Deroose Plants, Inc.

Email: info@derooseplantsusa.comAddress: 4601 N. Rock Springs Road

FL-32712 ApopkaUSA

Tel: +1 407 889 5228Fax : +1 407 889 5128