title: Release of embryogenic carrot cells with high regeneration potency from immobilized alginate beads.
abstract: For the mass-production of regenerated carrot plantlets, embryogenic carrot callus immobilized in calcium alginate gel beads was cultivated in a growth medium and the regeneration frequency of cells released from alginate gel beads was compared with that in a suspension culture. Cells released in the immobilized culture were regenerated at a frequency which was about 1.5 times higher than that obtained in the suspension culture. When CaCl2 was added to the growth medium at 5 mM, repeated batch culture for plantlet production continued for 245 d with no significant decrease in the productivity (1.6 x 10(5) plantlets/l-medium/d).
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nagamori
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Honda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi