Liquid Culture Systems for in Vitro Plant Propagation (Hardcover, 2005)

Contributing Authors Preface 1. General introduction: a personal reflection on the use of liquid media for in vitro culture; Walter Preil I. Bioreactors 2. Application of bioreactor design principles to plant micropropagation; Wayne R. Curtis 3. Bioreactor design for propagation of somatic embryos; Anne Kathrine Hvoslef-Eide, Odd Arild S. Olsen, Ragnhild Lyngved, Cristel Munster & Petter H. Heyerdahl 4. Practical aspects of bioreactor application in mass propagation of plants; S. Takayama & M. Akita 5. Simple bioreactors for mass propagation of plants; Meira Ziv 6. Application of bioreactor systems for large scale production of horticultural and medicinal plants; K.Y. Paek, Debasis Chakrabarty & E.J. Hahn 7. Membranes to reduce adherence of somatic embryos to the cell lift impeller of a bioreactor; Seppo Sorvari, Riitta Makelainen, Katriina Ahanen & Otto Toldi 8. Cost-effective mass cloning of plants in liquid media using a novel growtek bioreactor; Satyahari Dey 9. Multiplication of Chrysanthemum shoots in bioreactors as affected by culture method and inoculation density of single node stems; Eun-Joo Hahn & Kee-Yoeup Paek 10. Control of growth and differentiation of bioreactor cultures of Physcomitrella by environmental parameters; Annette Hohe & Ralf Reski II. Temporary Immersion Systems 11. Temporary immersion system: a new concept for use liquid medium in mass propagation; M. Berthouly & H. Etienne 12. Mass propagation of tropical crops in temporary immersion systems; Elio Jimenez Gonzalez 13. Use of growth retardants for banana (Musa AAA cv. Grand Naine) shoot multiplication in temporary immersion systems; Nilca Albany, Elio Jimenez, Jorge Vilchez, Leyanis Garcia, Manuel De Feria, Naivy Perez, Zoe Sarria, Blanca Perez & Justo Clavelo 14. Somatic embryogermination of Psidium guajava L. in the Rita® temporary immersion system and on semisolid medium; Rafael Gomez Kosky, J. Vilchez Perozo, N. Albany Valero & D. Agramonte Penalver 15. Application of a temporary immersion system in mass propagation of Phalaenopsis; Tino Hempfling & Walter Preil 16. Propagation of Prunus and Malus by temporary immersion; C. Damiano, S.R. La Starza, S. Monticelli, A. Gentile, E. Caboni & A. Frattarelli 17. Optimisation of growing conditions for the apple rootstock M26 grown in RITA containers using temporary immersion principle; Li-Hua Zhu, Xue-Yuan Li & Margareta Welander 18. Experimental use of a novel temporary immersion system for liquid culture of olive microshoots; Katerina Grigoriadou, Miltiadis Vasilakakis, Theofilos Tzoulis & Eleftherios P. Eleftheriou 19. Shoot regeneration from nodules of Charybdis sp.: A comparison of semisolid, liquid and temporary immersion culture systems; Ch. Wawrosch, A. Kongbangkerd, A. Kopf & B. Kopp III. Somatic Embryogenesis And Shoot Initiation 20. Propagation of Norway spruce via somatic embryogenesis; Sara von Arnold, Peter Bozhkov, David Clapham, Julia Dyachok, Lada Filonova, Karl-Anders Hogberg, Mathieu Ingouff & Malgorzata Wiweger 21. Norway spruce somatic embryogenesis: membrane rafts as a compromise between liquid and solidified media; M. Vagner, Z. Vondrakova, L. Fischerova & J. Opatrna 22. Picea abies somatic embryo development from suspension cultures and agar-based cultures: a comparison; Christopher Hunter & Lionel Levy 23. Somatic embryogenesis by liquid culture of epidermal layers in sunflower: from genetic control to cell development; Michel Petitprez, A. Sarrafi, E. Flores-Berrios, X. Xuhan, C. Briere & L. Gentzbittel 24. Development of photoautotrophy in Coffea somatic embryos enables mass production of clonal transplants; F.