Plan Tissue Culture Engineering [electronic resource] / edited by S. Dutta Gupta, Yasuomi Ibaraki.

Machine Vision -- Evaluation of photosynthetic capacity in micropropagated plants by image analysis -- Monitoring Gene Expression In Plant Tissues -- Applications And Potentials Of Artificial Neural Networks In Plant Tissue Culture -- Evaluation Of Plant Suspension Cultures By Texture Analysis -- BioReactor Technology -- Bioengineering Aspects Of Bioreactor Application In Plant Propagation -- Agitated, Thin-Films Of Liquid Media For Efficient Micropropagation -- Design, Development, And Applications Of Mist Bioreactors For Micropropagation And Hairy Root Culture -- Bioreactor Engineering For Recombinant Protein Production Using Plant Cell Suspension Culture -- Types And Designs Of Bioreactors For Hairy Root Culture -- Oxygen Transport In Plant Tissue Culture Systems -- Temporary Immersion Bioreactor -- Design And Use Of The Wave Bioreactor For Plant Cell Culture -- Mechanized Micropropagation -- Integrating Automation Technologies With Commercial Micropropagation -- Machine Vision And Robotics For The Separation And Regeneration Of Plant Tissue Cultures -- Engineering Cultural Environment -- Closed Systems For High Quality Transplants Using Minimum Resources -- Aeration In Plant Tissue Culture -- Tissue Culture Gel Firmness: Measurement And Effects On Growth -- Effects Of Dissolved Oxygen Concentration On Somatic Embryogenesis -- A Commercialized Photoautotrophic Micropropagation System -- Intelligent Inverse Analysis For Temperature Distribution In A Plant Culture Vessel -- Physical Aspects Of Plant Tissue Engineering -- Electrical Control Of Plant Morphogenesis -- The Uses Of Ultrasound In Plant Tissue Culture -- Acoustic Characteristics Of Plant Leaves Using Ultrasonic Transmission Waves -- Physical And Engineering Perspectives Of In Vitro Plant Cryopreservation.

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.