Healthy and productive apple, pear and cherry plants due to MultiPHY™ Process

NuPhY, a new agricultural technology company spun out of Washington State University, continues to produce high quality, healthy plants using the MultiPHY™ process that was conceived with guidance from the U.S. horticulture industry.

MultiPHY™ Process it is an optimized and customized micropropagation process, which combined with a high level of quality control. This enables the highest quality plants to be produced to support growers in meeting today's market demands.

NuPhY specializes in horticultural crops, including apples, pears and cherries, and provides plants that are disease-free and genetically confirmed to be true to type. The company notes that plants health is an important issue in horticulture. MultiPHY™ is especially useful for sweet cherry, a major crop in the Pacific Northwest that is seriously affected by Little Cherry Virus-2 (a disease affects nearly 50% of total production). Diseases caused by viruses are a major threat to most horticultural crops.

NuPhY, Inc., an affiliate of the Cowles Company, long known in the inland Pacific Northwest as a newspapers and TV stations media company that has also been involved in venture investment for the past 10 years. Its CFO, Steve Rector, said Agrotechnology is an up-and-coming space. "We are glad that the technology Washington State University professor of horticulture Amit Dhingra and his team developed at WSU is living on through NuPhY. We’re committed to continuing to provide it to growers in Washington and beyond," he added.

According to Dhingra, the immediate market launch of the technologies, which they developed in their research program at WSU, is for him an extension of the university's land-grant mission as these innovations can bring economic benefits to American farmers.

NuPhY Inc. is an US agricultural technology company that grows DNA-verified, true-to-type, disease and virus-free plant material. The company spun out from the University of Washington, where the MultiPHY™ process was conceived, an optimized clonal propagation method designed to produce healthy and productive plants.

More information on its website.