Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1991

Publication Title

Transactions of the ASAE

Publisher

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

Abstract

Investigations of materials and methods for growing plant tissue in a continual-flow, liquid nutrient medium as an alternative to semisolid agar medium have been made. Enhanced growth of plant tissue on microporous
polypropylene membranes floating on a liquid nutrient has been demonstrated. Moreover, in vitro plantlets on the microporous membrane are free from entanglement with the support matrix and readily available to mechanized
handling. Trained growth of plantlets through polypropylene netting shows potential for mechanization by mass handling (separation, singulation, and transfer) of plant tissue cultures.

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This work was published Open Access in Transactions of the ASAE. The published version may be found here: www.asabe.org

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