Automation and environmental control in plant tissue culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Automation

   1. Automation in plant tissue culture — general introduction and overview —

      • Jenny Aitken-Christie, Toyoki Kozai, Shinsaku Takayama

      Pages 1-18

   2. Economic analysis of automated micropropagation

      • Irwin Chu

      Pages 19-27

   3. Economic aspects of somatic embryogenesis

      • Robert Cervelli, Tissa Senaratna

      Pages 29-64

   4. Systems analysis and engineering

      • Paul N. Walker

      Pages 65-85

   5. Engineering aspects of plant propagation in bioreactors

      • Petter Hieronymus Heyerdahl, Odd Arild Sollien Olsen, Anne Kathrine Hvoslef-Eide

      Pages 87-123

   6. Mechanical engineering approaches to plant biotechnology

      • Y. Miwa, Y. Kushihashi, T. Kozai

      Pages 125-143

   7. Image analysis for plant cell culture and micropropagation

      • Mary Ann Lila Smith

      Pages 145-163

   8. Image analysis for embryogenesis

      • Kenji Kurata

      Pages 165-186

   9. Automation of the bioreactor process for mass propagation and secondary metabolism

      • R. R. Leathers, M. A. L. Smith, J. Aitken-Christie

      Pages 187-214

   10. Delivery systems for tissue culture by encapsulation

       • Yuji Sakamoto, Noboru Onishi, Takayasu Hirosawa

       Pages 215-243

   11. A delivery system for naked somatic embryos of interior spruce

       • Dane R. Roberts, Fiona B. Webster, David R. Cyr, Tim K. Edmonds, Susanna M. A. Grimes, Ben C. S. Sutton

       Pages 245-256

   12. Automated systems for organogenesis

       • Kenji Kurata

       Pages 257-272

   13. Commercialisation of tissue culture and automated systems

       • Kathryn S. Wilson

       Pages 273-300

3. Environmental control

   1. Environmental control in plant tissue culture — general introduction and overview

      • Toyoki Kozai, Mary Ann Lila Smith

      Pages 301-318

   2. Physical microenvironment and its effects

      • Kazuhiro Fujiwara, Toyoki Kozai

      Pages 319-369

   3. Vessels, gels, liquid media, and support systems

      • Mary Ann Lila Smith, L. Art Spomer

      Pages 371-404

   4. The chemical microenvironment

      • R. R. Williams

      Pages 405-439

   5. Carbon nutrition in vitro — regulation and manipulation of carbon assimilation in micropropagated systems

      • Yves Desjardins, Chafik Hdider, Jan de Riek

      Pages 441-471

   6. Ethylene

      • Danny Matthys, Johan Gielis, Pierre Debergh

      Pages 473-491

Automation and Environmental Control in Plant Tissue Culture rigorously explores the new challenges faced by modern plant tissue culture researchers and producers worldwide: issues of cost efficiency, automation, control, and optimization of the in vitro microenvironment. This book achieves a critical balance between the economic, engineering and biological viewpoints, and presents well-balanced, unique, and clearly organized perspectives on current initiatives in the tissue culture arena. Each chapter offers guidelines leading towards an exhaustive, unprecedented level of control over in vitro growth, based on emerging technologies of robotics, machine vision, environmental sensors and regulation, and systems analysis. Unlike other tissue culture books which focus on specific crops and techniques, this book spans the broad range of major tissue culture production systems, and advances evidence on how some underrated aspects of the process actually determine the status of the end product. Key researchers from industry and academia have joined to give up-to-date research evidence and analysis. The collection comprises an essential reference for industrial-scale tissue culture producers, as well as any researcher interested in optimizing in vitro production.

• Assimilat
• Embryo
• automation
• biotechnology
• environment
• mechanical engineering
• robot
• robotics

` .. I therefore recommend this book for researchers and propagators actively involved in plant tissue culture. Discussions are thorough and references are abundant and current. Similarly, figures are plentiful and help broaden one's mental conceptualization of plant tissue culture. I would make an even greater point of sharing this volume with peers who may think that plant tissue culture has achieved an adequate stage of maturity to routinely serve applications in research science.'
Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology, 1:3, 1995

• Forest Biotechnology Centre, Carter Holt Harvey Forestry Group, Rotorua, New Zealand

  Jenny Aitken-Christie

• Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan

  Toyoki Kozai

• Plant Sciences Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

  Mary Ann Lila Smith

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