Chen Wen-hui, deputy-director of the Agri-Business Department at Taiwan Sugar Corporation, which is famous for its orchid exports, relates that Taiwan Sugar has successfully transplanted virus- and bacterial-soft-rot-resistant genes in the butterfly orchid.
以育蘭外銷著稱的台灣糖業股份有限公司農業處副處長陳文輝指出，台糖「產學合作計畫」選殖中研院研發的抗軟腐病基因與中興大學研發的抗病毒基因到蝴蝶蘭上。