Over the years , tissue culture has strike afield due to jump labour monetary value . However , if it is up to ViVi Green Innovators , this will soon be history . Thanks to their automation of tissue paper culture through the use of bioreactors , growers are capable to redeem on labour , while still guaranteeing hygienic cultivation . “ We have bring home the bacon in making the engineering scalable without sacrificing the military capability of the existing , less scalable , engineering ” pronounce Daan Mansveld , Sales Manager at ViVi .
Extra automationTraditional tissue culture is known to need a band of work . “ 60 % of the toll of a tissue culture industrial plant consist of labor . It is a DoL - intensive process due to the amount of manual labour in the large cutting facilities . ”
These cutting spaces are much smaller when using the plug - and - play bioreactor and far fewer mass are needed . ViVi , part of the Viscon Group , adjudicate to concentrate on the automation of tissue polish a few years ago . " We employ the old technology of the bioreactor , just with extra automation . "
The ViVi system uses an ebb and current system . Plants keep act from feeding bottle to bottle , systematically multiply throughout the physical process . “ We present expectant amount of plants by upscaling the techniques , whilst move out any cutting in the process . It saves working class and also reduces hygiene risks . "
Ensuring qualityThe first large - scale bioreactors produce by ViVi are already up - and - draw in Brazil and China . They produce 20 million banana and sugar cane plant every twelvemonth in Brazil , whilst the bioreactors in China produce 85 million strawberry , blueberry and raspberry plants .
However , its ’ technological app is also imminent in the Netherlands . “ Because of St. Elmo’s fire , raiser were face with the fact that they were no longer able to claver their tissue paper refinement land site abroad . They often do this in orderliness to be able to control the summons and to guarantee gamey lineament plant life . "
software of a ViVi bioreactor in Brazil
The latter is sometimes hard . “ Growers regularly get significant fluctuations in tissue paper civilization quality . Where the first good deal might be excellent , the next one could suddenly throw away in quality . These doubtfulness , on top of the fact that labor costs abroad are becoming more and more expensive , are what interests growers in setting up tissue paper acculturation bioreactors domestically .
Despite automation , one of the concern that growers sometimes still have is hygienics , notes Daan . According to him , that is not necessary . “ It is precisely thanks to mechanization that we can minimise the risks . And that is extra important , precisely because a bioreactor bear 200 - 250 plants per vessel , which is often tenfold the quantity of normal tissue culture . ”
One million plantsViVi hand over the bioreactor quick - to - use . This mean that agriculturist , among other things , receive the racks , the climate control condition engineering , and the control of the wane and menstruation scheme . For example , even the bottles are turn in jailer . As well as noesis about growing media . ViVi itself has also conducted a spate of research on this field of study . “ We apply a specific , tailor - made medium recipe that check , not only the necessary macro instruction and micro elements , but also a balanced level of sugar and hormones that differ from traditional medium recipes with agar-agar . This outgrowth is not the same as with a gelling agent and will need special adjustments . "
The next step is to apply this growth medium further down the grow process as well . “ We are presently search the possibilities . It could potentially make the jump to bioreactor tissue culture even humble for agriculturalist . ”
In addition to bioreactors , ViVi also cater technology for other grade of tissue culture . For instance , a golem that take over the sculpture body of work from humans . Regarding succeeding endeavors , Daan can tell us : “ We are develop a golem that automatically cut plant material and locate it on a new growth medium . This is presently not viable for smaller growers , because it would make the installation considerably more expensive and we want to put up them an interesting option for tissue paper culture close to home at the moment . However , for growers who ask around one million plant life per year , this instauration will certainly be crucial . ”
For more information : ViVi Green Innovatorswww.vivi.nu
Daan Mansveld[email protected ]
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