Plant Tissue Culture Engineering
It is my privilege to contribute the foreword for this unique volume entitled: “Plant Tissue Culture Engineering,” edited by S. Dutta Gupta and Y. Ibaraki. While there have been a number of volumes published regarding the basic methods and applications of
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FOCUS ON BIOTECHNOLOGY Volume 6
Series Editors MARCEL HOFMAN
Centre for Veterinary and Agrochemical Research, Tervuren, Belgium
JOZEF ANNÉ
Rega Institute, University of Leuven, Belgium
Volume Editors S. DUTTA GUPTA Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
YASUOMI IBARAKI Department of Biological Science, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan
COLOPHON Focus on Biotechnology is an open-ended series of reference volumes produced by Springer in co-operation with the Branche Belge de la Société de Chimie Industrielle a.s.b.l. The initiative has been taken in conjunction with the Ninth European Congress on Biotechnology. ECB9 has been supported by the Commission of the European Communities, the General Directorate for Technology, Research and Energy of the Wallonia Region, Belgium and J. Chabert, Minister for Economy of the Brussels Capital Region.
Plant Tissue Culture Engineering
Edited by
S. DUTTA GUPTA
Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and
YASUOMI IBARAKI Department of Biological Science, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan
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ISBN 978-1-4020-3594-4 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-3694-1 (e-book)
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FOREWORD It is my privilege to contribute the foreword for this unique volume entitled: “Plant Tissue Culture Engineering,” edited by S. Dutta Gupta and Y. Ibaraki. While there have been a number of volumes published regarding the basic methods and applications of plant tissue and cell culture technologies, and even considerable attention provided to bioreactor design, relatively little attention has been afforded to the engineering principles that have emerged as critical contributions to the commercial applications of plant biotechnologies. This volume, “Plant Tissue Culture Engineering,” signals a turning point: the recognition that this specialized field of plant science must be integrated with engineering principles in order to develop efficient, cost effective, and large scale applications of these technologies. I am most impressed with the organization of this volume, and the extensive list of chapters contributed by expert authors from around the world who are leading the emergence of this interdisciplinary enterprise. The editors are to be commended for their skilful crafting of this important volume. The first two part
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