title: Mass propagation of shoots of Stevia rebaudiana using a large scale bioreactor.
abstract: A procedure for the mass propagation of multiple shoots of Stevia rebaudiana is described. Isolated shoot primordia were used as the inoculum to obtain clusters of shoot primordia. Such clusters were grown in a 500 liter bioreactor to obtain shoots. A total of 64.6 Kg of shoots were propagated from 460 g of the inoculated shoot primordia. These shoots were easily acclimatized in soil.
authors.affiliation: Tsukuba Lab., PCC Technology, c/o Tsukuba Res. Labs., Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Ltd., 2 Miyukigaoka Tsukuba, 305, Ibaraki, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shigeoka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koizumi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawamura