Ebook: Automation and environmental control in plant tissue culture

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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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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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.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Automation in plant tissue culture — general introduction and overview —....Pages 1-18
Economic analysis of automated micropropagation....Pages 19-27
Economic aspects of somatic embryogenesis....Pages 29-64
Systems analysis and engineering....Pages 65-85
Engineering aspects of plant propagation in bioreactors....Pages 87-123
Mechanical engineering approaches to plant biotechnology....Pages 125-143
Image analysis for plant cell culture and micropropagation....Pages 145-163
Image analysis for embryogenesis....Pages 165-186
Automation of the bioreactor process for mass propagation and secondary metabolism....Pages 187-214
Delivery systems for tissue culture by encapsulation....Pages 215-243
A delivery system for naked somatic embryos of interior spruce....Pages 245-256
Automated systems for organogenesis....Pages 257-272
Commercialisation of tissue culture and automated systems....Pages 273-300
Environmental control in plant tissue culture — general introduction and overview....Pages 301-318
Physical microenvironment and its effects....Pages 319-369
Vessels, gels, liquid media, and support systems....Pages 371-404
The chemical microenvironment....Pages 405-439
Carbon nutrition in vitro — regulation and manipulation of carbon assimilation in micropropagated systems....Pages 441-471
Ethylene....Pages 473-491
Low temperature storage of plant tissue cultures....Pages 493-516
Environmental measurement and control systems....Pages 517-538
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