"Whoever controls flower varieties can corner the market," says Chen Wen-huei, chairman of the Institute of Biotechnology at National University of Kaohsiung. Flower varieties and cultivars are the core thing of value in the flower industry. If you don't own them, then producing plants and flowers is reduced to the level of mere "industrial processing."
台灣蘭界大老、高雄大學生物科技研究所所長陳文輝說，品種才是花卉產業的核心價值所在，沒有品種，花卉生產充其量只是「加工業」而已。