Tagged: plant improvement

Clones and Cultivars

Every named plant in an Assam garden carries a code, TV1, TS 397, TTRI 2, or a garden's own name and a number. The complete reference to what those codes mean, the categories Tocklai sorts its releases into, and how a candidate plant becomes a released clone at all.

The Tocklai Institute

The complete record of the Tocklai Tea Research Institute at Jorhat, the world's oldest tea research station and the office behind nearly every clone, pest study, and quality benchmark this office has ever certified. How a single chemist's post in 1891 became a formal station in 1911, what its eleven divisions do, and the science it has produced since.