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Automation and environmental control in plant tissue culture

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Jenny Aitken-Christie

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

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  2. Toyoki Kozai

    1. Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan

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  3. Mary Ann Lila Smith

    1. Plant Sciences Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  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
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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.

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` .. 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

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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