Automation and environmental control in plant tissue culture
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Jenny Aitken-Christie, Toyoki Kozai, Mary Ann Lila Smith.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Dordrecht
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1995
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(XII, 574 pages)
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Botany.
Ecology.
Life sciences.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QK725
Book number
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E358
1995
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
edited by Jenny Aitken-Christie, Toyoki Kozai, Mary Ann Lila Smith.