Automation and environmental control in plant tissue culture
[Book]
edited by Jenny Aitken-Christie, Toyoki Kozai, Mary Ann Lila Smith.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer
1995
(XII, 574 pages)
Automation --;1. Automation in plant tissue culture. General introduction and overview --;2. Economic analysis of automated micropropagation --;3. Economic aspects of somatic embryogenesis --;4. Systems analysis and engineering --;5. Engineering aspects of plant propagation in bioreactors --;6. Mechanical engineering approaches to plant biotechnology --;7. Image analysis for plant cell culture and micropropagation --;8. Image analysis for embryogenesis --;9. Automation of the bioreactor process for mass propagation and secondary metabolism --;10. Delivery systems for tissue culture by encapsulation --;11. A delivery system for naked somatic embryos of interior spruce --;12. Automated systems for organogenesis --;13. Commercialisation of tissue culture and automated systems --;Environmental control --;14. Environmental control in plant tissue culture. General introduction and overview --;15. Physical microenvironment and its effects --;16. Vessels, gels, liquid media, and support systems --;17. The chemical microenvironment --;18. Carbon nutrition in vitro. Regulation and manipulation of carbon assimilation in micropropagated systems --;19. Ethylene --;20. In vitro acclimatization --;21. Low temperature storage of plant tissue cultures --;22. Environmental measurement and control systems.
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.
Botany.
Ecology.
Life sciences.
QK725
.
E358
1995
edited by Jenny Aitken-Christie, Toyoki Kozai, Mary Ann Lila Smith.