DHA Tissue culture and research lab was inaugurated in the year 2010 by the former
Comd 5 Corps Lt Gen Shahid Iqbal.
The idea was brought by him that a laboratory at the premises of DHA can be a hub
to cutdown the heavy investment on import of elite varieties of Ornamental and crop
plants by employing the tissue culture technology.The lab starts functioning in
2011 after all the equipments and supplies , initially it was aimed that the ornamental
plants should be tissue cultured as this was the primarily demand of the residents
of DHA. In order to do so plants like Croton (Codieaum variegatum), Ixora (Ixora
Coccinea), Anthurium (Anthurium andraenum), and Lily (Lilium regale) were used for
tissue culturing and within a span of one year by the Grace of Almighty Allah we
would be able to multiply around 7000 plantlets in the growth room and almost 500
plants were now acclimatizing in the Green house for subsequent selling to the local
market. In the coming year this lab will focus on the multiplication/ tissue culturing
of exotic Orchid and Banana varieties.DHA has hired a Biotechnologist (Ms Asma Nasib)
as Lab Incharge for the facility who has sufficient experience in the field of tissue
culture. She not only setup the whole lab and green house but she also been able
to train the staff for there need in the lab. In the coming future the lab would
be expanded for the training of human resource in this facility.