Development of an automated plant culture system

✍ Scribed by Brent Tisserat; Carl E. Vandercook

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 853 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-6857
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00040307

✦ Synopsis

An apparatus was constructed that could be used to grow plant tissues, organs, and whole plantlets under sterile conditions. This system accommodated independent or multiple concurrent growth of cultures. Growth of plants either equalled or exceeded that observed using the manual transfer procedure. The automated plant culture system (APCS) consists of silicone tubing, 2 impeller pumps, 2 glass medium reservoir bottles, a 3-way stainless steel vane, a plant culture chamber, and an interface module containing relay boards. Control of the APCS is through interfacing with a microcomputer (e.g. Apple lie or Atari 400). The computer controlled medium introduction, evacuation, and replenishment in a sterile environment. The APCS was inexpensively constructed and provides a labor-saving, long-term method to culture plants in vitro.