Synopses & Reviews
Decades of research in plant tissue culture has passed through many challenges, created new dreams and resulted in landmark achievements. This has been possible not only due to the refinements of cultural practices and application of cutting-edge areas of molecular biology but also to the judicious inclusion of engineering principles and methods to the system. It has been the aim of the editors to offer a comprehensive survey of the engineering principles and methods applied in plant tissue culture, which has laid the foundation to many successes and opened up new vistas in this field. This volume, Plant Tissue Culture Engineering, signals a turning point: the recognition that this specialized field of plant science must be integrated with engineering principles in order to develop efficient, cost effective and large scale applications of these technologies. A diverse team of key researchers, technologists and engineers have joined to describe in a lucid manner how various engineering disciplines can contribute to the improvement of plant tissue culture techniques and transform it to a technology. The volume contains 5 parts: Machine vision systems for non-invasive and objective evaluation of cultures Innovative bioreactor technologies and its engineering bases Mechanized and/or automated culture processes Engineering cultural environment Physical aspects of plant tissue culture engineering Readers of this volume will find a unique collection of chapters that will focus their attention on the interface of plant biotechnologies and engineering technologies. This volume will be of use to graduate students, teachers and research workers in the fields of horticulture, agricultural botany and plant biotechnology in general and also to individuals who with or without engineering background are interested in industrial plant tissue culture.
Review
From the reviews: Plant Tissue Culture Engineering brings the engineering-plant tissue culture link to a new dimension of understanding. The editors have excelled in weaving an exquisite mosaic of plant tissue culture themes that are more than important - they are central - in the understanding of their engineering principles. I, as a scientist constantly in need of novelties to improve my own tissue culture production systems, found this book to be of tremendous value. It brought new insights, new techniques, and most importantly new inspiration for new research ideas. ... I would not hesitate in recommending Plant Tissue Culture Engineering as an excellent supplement to a good tissue culture book. Most definitely students, researchers and professionals alike would benefit from the knowledge containted in these pages. Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Global Plant Letters, Issue 1:2 "This volume successfully covers a broad remit, bringing together acknowledged experts and consisting of 24 chapters, structured under the headings of Machine Vision, Bioreactor Technology, Mechanised Propagation Systems, Engineering the Cultural Environment and Physical Aspects of Plant Tissue Engineering. Several chapters will be of broad interest to plant tissue culture laboratories ... . is a very interesting and extensive volume, within which there are chapters of essential reading for anyone involved in either commercial plant tissue culture, or research into understanding fundamental plant developmental processes." (Steve Millam, Experimental Agriclture, Vol. 43, 2007) "This book is the sixth volume of the series 'Focus on Biotechnology' edited by M. Hofman and J. Anzé. ... This comprehensive book with many tables and figures can serve not only as up-to date source of information for researchers and teachers in the area of plant biotechnology but it also open up new vistas in this field." (J. Pospíšilová, Biologia Plantarum, Vol. 51 (3), 2007)
Review
From the reviews:
Plant Tissue Culture Engineering brings the engineering-plant tissue culture link to a new dimension of understanding.
The editors have excelled in weaving an exquisite mosaic of plant tissue culture themes that are more than important - they are central - in the understanding of their engineering principles.
I, as a scientist constantly in need of novelties to improve my own tissue culture production systems, found this book to be of tremendous value. It brought new insights, new techniques, and most importantly new inspiration for new research ideas.
... I would not hesitate in recommending Plant Tissue Culture Engineering as an excellent supplement to a good tissue culture book. Most definitely students, researchers and professionals alike would benefit from the knowledge containted in these pages.
Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Global Plant Letters, Issue 1:2
"This volume successfully covers a broad remit, bringing together acknowledged experts and consisting of 24 chapters, structured under the headings of Machine Vision, Bioreactor Technology, Mechanised Propagation Systems, Engineering the Cultural Environment and Physical Aspects of Plant Tissue Engineering. Several chapters will be of broad interest to plant tissue culture laboratories ... . is a very interesting and extensive volume, within which there are chapters of essential reading for anyone involved in either commercial plant tissue culture, or research into understanding fundamental plant developmental processes." (Steve Millam, Experimental Agriclture, Vol. 43, 2007)
"This book is the sixth volume of the series 'Focus on Biotechnology' edited by M. Hofman and J. Anzé. ... This comprehensive book with many tables and figures can serve not only as up-to date source of information for researchers and teachers in the area of plant biotechnology but it also open up new vistas in this field." (J. Pospíšilová, Biologia Plantarum, Vol. 51 (3), 2007)
Synopsis
This volume,
Plant Tissue Culture Engineering, signals a turning point: the recognition that this specialized field of plant science must be integrated with engineering principles in order to develop efficient, cost effective and large scale applications of these technologies. A diverse team of key researchers, technologists and engineers have joined to describe in a lucid manner how various engineering disciplines can contribute to the improvement of plant tissue culture techniques and transform it to a technology. The volume contains 5 parts:
- Machine vision systems for non-invasive and objective evaluation of cultures
- Innovative bioreactor technologies and its engineering bases
- Mechanized and/or automated culture processes
- Engineering cultural environment
- Physical aspects of plant tissue culture engineering
Readers of this volume will find a unique collection of chapters that will focus their attention on the interface of plant biotechnologies and engineering technologies.
This volume will be of use to graduate students, teachers and research workers in the fields of horticulture, agricultural botany and plant biotechnology in general and also to individuals who with or without engineering background are interested in industrial plant tissue culture.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Machine VisionEvaluation of photosynthetic capacity in micropropagated plants by image analysis/Y. Ibaraki
Monitoring gene expression in plant tissues/J.J. Finer, S.L. Beck, M.T. Buenrostro-Nava, Y. Chi, P.P. Ling
Applications and potentials of artificial neural networks in plant tissue culture/V.S.S. Prasad, S. Dutta Gupta
Evaluation of plant suspension cultures by texture analysis/Y. Ibaraki
Part 2: Bioreactor TechnologyBioengineering aspects of bioreactor application in plant propagation/S. Takayama, M. Akita
Agitated, thin-films of liquid media for efficient micropropagation/ J. Adelberg
Design, development and applications of mist bioreactors for micropropagation and hairy root culture/M.J. Towler, Y. Kim, B.E. Wyslouzil, M.J. Correll, P.J. Weathers
Bioreactor engineering for recombinant protein production using plant cell suspension culture/W.W. Su
Types and designs of bioreactors for hairy root culture/Y-E Choi, Y-S Kim, K-Y Paek
Oxygen transport in plant tissue culture systems/W.R. Curtis, A.L. Tuerk
Temporary immersion bioreactor/F. Afteen
Design and use of the wave bioreactor for plant cell culture/R. Eibl, D. Eibl
Part 3: Mechanized MicropropagationIntegrating automation technologies with commercial micropropagation/C.J. Sluis
Machine vision and robotics for the separation and regeneration of plant tissue cultures/P.H. Heinemann, P.N. Walker
Part 4: Engineering Cultural EnvironmentClosed systems for high quality transplants using minimum resources/T. Kozai
Aeration in plant tissue culture/S.M.A. Zobayed
Tissue culture gel firmness: measurement and effects on growth/S.I. Cameron
Effects of dissolved oxygen concentration on somatic embryogenesis/K. Kurata, T. Shimazu
A commercialized photoautotrophic micropropagation system/T. Kozai, Y. Xiao
Intelligent inverse analysis for temperature distribution in a plant culture vessel/H. Murase, T. Okayama, Suroso
Part 5: Physical Aspects of Plant Tissue EngineeringElectrical control of plant morphogenesis/C.G. Carmen
The uses of ultrasound in plant tissue culture/V. Gaba, K. Kathiravan, S. Amutha, S. Singer, X. Xiaodi, G. Ananthakrishnan
Acoustic characteristics of plant leaves using ultrasonic transmission waves/M. Fukuhara, S. Dutta Gupta, L. Okushima
Physical and engineering perspectives of in vitro plant cryopreservation/E.E. Benson, J. Johnston, J. Muthusamy, K. Harding