"Plant Tissue Culture Engineering"

edited by S. Datta Gupta and Yasuomi Ibaraki

Springer 2006, 480 pages. $249.00 + shipping ($5.00, U.S. or $25.00 Elsewhere)

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.

Part 1: Machine Vision

Evaluation 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 Technology

Bioengineering 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 Micropropagation

Integrating 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 Environment Closed 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 Engineering Electrical 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

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