The following points highlight the top five utility of suspension culture. The utilities are: 1. Source of Secondary Metabolites 2. Biotransformation 3. Source of Somatic Embryos and Cell Line 4. Source of Protein 5. Mutant Production and its Use. Utility # 1. Source of Secondary Metabolites: Cell suspension cultures have been shown to produce a number of valuable seconÂdary metabolites, [...]
In this article we will discuss about the initiation and maintenance of callus culture. Callus culture represents clumps of unorganised parenchyma tissue formed through vigorous proliferation by cell division from any kind of explants under cultural condition, showing no polarity. Any kind of permanent but living tissue such as parenchyma, collenchyma, cortical tissue, pith cells, phloem tissue, cambium cells or [...]
The below mentioned article provides a study note on suspension culture. A cell suspension culture consists of cell aggregates dispersed and growing in moving liquid media. It is normally initiated by transferring pieces of undifferentiated and friable calli to a liquid medium agitated by a suitable device (Fig. 17.3A-C). Agitation in the medium helps in two ways, it exerts a [...]