Study questions

1. What are the advantages of plant bioreactor?

2. How is batch culture different from continuous or semi-continuous culture of plant cell suspension?

3. What are important parameters need to be considered while designing the suitable plant bioreactor process?

4. Select the two main problems caused by high biomass concentrations in plant cell culture:

a) rapid settling of the culture,

b) difficult to control temperature,

c) oxygen supply,

d) harvesting the cells,

e) mixing

5. Write short notes on

a) Mechanically agitated bioreactors

b) Air driven bioreactors

c) Non-agitated bioreactors

d) Bioreactors for hairy roots