Instead the laboratories
have to develop their own markets, marketing and sales for bamboo plants (Gielis and
Oprins, 1998). This strategy of forward integration needs to go beyond the classical
scheme of tissue culture. The tissue culture phase terminates at Stage III, but in regard to
marketing of plants one can also distinguish subsequent stages: (1) Stage IV, the
transplantation stage with the end product being rooted plantlets in trays, (2) Stage V, the
production of liners, either for production of saleable plants or for use as
micromotherplant, and (3) Stage VI, the production of saleable plants.