Plant Cell Culture — Future Perspectives

Abstract

With the development and operation of industrial-scale plant cell culture processes, cell culture technology may be said to have “come of age.” One or two processes operating commercially do not, however, “make an industry.” Much yet still remains to be done if plant cell culture technology is to have a major impact upon process technology in the chemical industry. With this in mind, and with the wide range of papers presented at the Giessen Symposium, it was felt appropriate to review developments in plant cell culture and to provide a perspective of the challenges to be faced in the years ahead. To this end a small group of people were asked to put on paper their ideas, concerns and visions relating to the future of plant cell culture. The following text is an edited version of their thoughts.

Edited from Contributions by D.K. Dougall, M.W. Fowler, W. Hüseman, A. Komamine, W. Kurz, M.M. Yolman