Liquid Culture Systems for in vitro Plant Propagation

Development and validation of low cost bioreactor 517
We analysed the FCs content of these different qualities of the biomass
(Figure 9) and it revealed that the less green was the biomass, the lower its
content was (less than 50%).
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Figure 5: Time course of Ruta shoots growth when cultivated in 3-litre bubble flask (Figure
2, Bioreactor 2).
Figure 6: Comparison of Ruta shoot growth cultivated in 3-litre bubble flasks (Figure 2,
Bioreactor 2) in a medium containing 10 or 30 g l -1 of sucrose.