Dümmen Orange signed a technical service contract with the National Cheng Kung University ( NCKU ) Orchid Biotechnology and Creative Industry - University Alliance ( Orchid Alliance ) in Taiwan on 31 May 2025 .
Under this contract bridge , NCKU will provide nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid testing and multiplex analytic thinking of orchid plants . NCKU also invited Dümmen Orange to take out a gold rank of the Orchid Biotechnology and Creativity Industry - University Alliance and become its first international member .
As the first inquiry squad to publish the genome sequence of phalaenopsis , the NCKU Orchid Research and Development Center has attract a pot of attention worldwide , including from Dümmen Orange , which has a phalaenopsis rearing adeptness in southerly Taiwan . Dümmen Orange and NCKU contacted each other officially in March 2019 , to discuss a possible collaboration . Hans van den Heuvel , Managing Director R&D at Dümmen Orange , outlined the initial collaboration projects and sign the technical service contract with NCKU in October of that class .
Hong - Hwa Chen , director of the NCKU Orchid Research & Development Center and Distinguished Professor of the Department of Life Sciences , said : “ This is the first metre the NCKU Orchid Research Center will be cater expert services internationally with its five technical service platforms specializing in orchids . This collaboration unfold up dandy opportunity between Taiwan and the Netherlands in breeding and research in the Phalaenopsis industry . ”
Chunting Lang , Breeding Manager Dümmen Orange , who joined the signing ceremony , said : “ We are very grateful to the NCKU Orchid Alliance for leave these highly specialized technical services and look forward to working more closely with them in the near future , especially with a view to achieve progress in commercialize phalaenopsis varieties with disease impedance , fragrance , ledge lifetime and conveyance resilience . ”
Orchid AllianceThe Orchid Biotechnology and Creative Industry - University Alliance ( Orchid Alliance ) was establish by Professor Hong - Hwa Chen in February 2012 , executing a MOST labor . The Orchid Alliance own the service platform for key engineering science relating to orchid - related biotechnology , including the mintage feature analysis and evaluation program , the embodied refinement direction program and the ingredient and authentication platform for orchid Cartesian product . These platforms allow for orchid growers ( elementary industriousness ) and orchid biotech manufacturers ( secondary industry ) with a all-encompassing range of useful knowledge and professional technology .
National Cheng Kung UniversityThe National Cheng Kung University ( NCKU ) Orchid Research & Development Center has been the push and pull of the Orchid Alliance . It brings together the travail of industries , governments , academia and inquiry institutes , enabling interdisciplinary resources and fundamental interaction to be shared among members . An expanding and ever hard Orchid Alliance will result the orchidaceous plant industry in Taiwan into a new century and a novel earth .
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