Chuck Pavlich is our Director of New Product Development. Educated at Washington State University, he has worked in the retail nursery business for 30 years. Chuck brings his passion for plants to Terra Nova. He is gifted at finding mutations in the wild and from nursery crops (some have been previously introduced by Terra Nova). As our New Product Director Chuck is responsible for new ideas for the breeders as well as overseeing the breeding process and shepherding our new products to the world perennial market.
Harini Korlipara is our Lab Manager and one of our Plant Breeders. She brings her expertise in cytogenetics to Terra Nova's breeding program. She creates improved varieties through advanced techniques. Harini earned a M. Phil. and Ph.D in Cytogenetics and Plant Breeding from Nagarjuna University in India and worked for over five years as a scientist in the plant tissue culture industry before coming to Terra Nova. She has published dozens of articles in professional journals. Her major crops here include Echinacea and Coreopsis.
Janet Egger is our traditional plant breeder, trial plant manager, as well as our patent writer and manager. She has a B.S. in Botany and a M.S. in Horticulture from the University of California, Davis, and has been breeding perennials since 1983. She has been working at Terra Nova since October 2000. Her major crops here include Heuchera and Heucherella.
Rob Jansen is our stock plant manager, having been our propagation manager for the past 7 years. He manages the breeding houses, outdoor trial beds and gardens, and stock plant collections. Rob has a B.S. in Horticulture from Oregon State University and worked as a wholesale perennial grower for 14 years.
Our Lab Team in Action!
The lab team produces plants new to horticulture, and also the means to multiply and distribute these plants around the world. Dozens of new varieties are created each year through flower breeding and laboratory research. Most of these new varieties are then propagated in tissue culture to quickly bring large numbers of healthy plants to market.
Mother blocks
Rufi uses her considerable abilities to assist Harini with tissue culture and plant breeding research.
Storage of Mother Material
Our In Vitro Storage Manager maintains stock plants in tissue culture for all plants produced in ourlaboratories and coordinates day-to-day operations in the Tigard laboratory. He comes to us with a Botany degree from Chico State.
Kate
Kate maintains our in vitro stock plants. She also works with our newest plants in initiation through determining stage II and III protocols before plants are grown in pilot production. Kate has a degree in plant sciences from Cornell University.
Tissue Culture Production
Plants in Tissue Culture
Arthur makes the media we use to grow our plant tissue cultures and helps with micropropagation. Arthur is originally from Micronesia and has a degree in agriculture from the University of Hawaii.
The creative floodgates
have opened at Terra Nova! From our dazzling range
of new Coreopsis
and Echinacea
to new Penstemon and Sedum, we have flowering
plants to fit every need.
On the foliage front,
we feature a collection from the ice-kissed Acanthus
'Whitewater' to new red-stemmed Hosta
and Heuchera
and Heucherella
in some amazing shades.
Chuck Pavlich is our Director of New Product Development. Educated at Washington State University, he has worked in the retail nursery business for 30 years. Chuck brings his passion for plants to Terra Nova. He is gifted at finding mutations in the wild and from nursery crops (some have been previously introduced by Terra Nova). As our New Product Director Chuck is responsible for new ideas for the breeders as well as overseeing the breeding process and shepherding our new products to the world perennial market.
Harini Korlipara is our Lab Manager and one of our Plant Breeders. She brings her expertise in cytogenetics to Terra Nova's breeding program. She creates improved varieties through advanced techniques. Harini earned a M. Phil. and Ph.D in Cytogenetics and Plant Breeding from Nagarjuna University in India and worked for over five years as a scientist in the plant tissue culture industry before coming to Terra Nova. She has published dozens of articles in professional journals. Her major crops here include Echinacea and Coreopsis.
Janet Egger is our traditional plant breeder, trial plant manager, as well as our patent writer and manager. She has a B.S. in Botany and a M.S. in Horticulture from the University of California, Davis, and has been breeding perennials since 1983. She has been working at Terra Nova since October 2000. Her major crops here include Heuchera and Heucherella.
Rob Jansen is our stock plant manager, having been our propagation manager for the past 7 years. He manages the breeding houses, outdoor trial beds and gardens, and stock plant collections. Rob has a B.S. in Horticulture from Oregon State University and worked as a wholesale perennial grower for 14 years.
