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Design of Bioreactors for Plant Cell and Organ Cultures

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Production of Biomass and Bioactive Compounds Using Bioreactor Technology

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Demands for sustainable supply of plant biomass and/or value added-molecules (incl. native and heterologous therapeutic proteins, specialty proteins and industrial enzymes) have been the driving efforts to develop alternative ways for their bioproduction. Plant cell and organ cultures have been demonstrated an efficient, cost effective and eco-friendly alternative to classical technologies (i.e. by harvest from wild) and chemical (semi)synthesis. The progress has resulted in development of several commercial processes for large-scale production of plant biomass and high value molecules, besides numerous proof-of-concept studies at laboratory- and pilot-scale. This chapter summarizes the bioreactor configurations for plant cell and organ cultures, and attempts to outline the immense potential of plant in vitro culture-based bioprocesses for sustainable supply of biomass and value-added molecules for various purposes along with the major challenges that remain.

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  1. Laboratory of Applied Biotechnologies, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 139 Ruski Blvd., Plovdiv, 4000, Bulgaria

    Milen I. Georgiev

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  1. Department of Horticultural Science, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Kee-Yoeup Paek

  2. Department of Botany, Karnatak University, Dharwad, India

    Hosakatte Niranjana Murthy

  3. School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Jian-Jiang Zhong

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Georgiev, M.I. (2014). Design of Bioreactors for Plant Cell and Organ Cultures. In: Paek, KY., Murthy, H., Zhong, JJ. (eds) Production of Biomass and Bioactive Compounds Using Bioreactor Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9223-3_1

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