relation: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/19/ title: Issues in plant cell culture engineering for enhancement of productivity creator: Abdullah, M.A. creator: Lajis, N.H. creator: Ali, A.M. creator: Marziah, M. creator: Sinskey, A.J. creator: Rha, C. description: Plant cell culture is seen as an alternative source to whole plants for the production of useful compounds, such as dyes, pharmaceuticals, perfumes and insecticides. Despite intensive research for the last 30 years, only a few products have reached commercial production in bioreactors, and the number is far less than those commercialized for bacterial and animal cells. Several biological challenges including slow cell growth, low productivity, compartmentation, metabolite channelling and poor metabolite secretion have hampered the realization of commercialization of plant cell products. Other engineering and technological problems include cell aggregation, plant cell shear sensitivity, foaming and lack of automation. Several strategies are being explored to improve productivity including medium optimization and cultural conditions, and the understanding of biochemical and signal transduction pathways. In plant cell culture process development, there is a great need to explore a more rational approach through metabolic and genetic engineering by making use of advanced technologies in genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic analyses. These should be integrated with developments in bioprocess and systems engineering. publisher: Curtin University of Technology date: 2005 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Abdullah, M.A. and Lajis, N.H. and Ali, A.M. and Marziah, M. and Sinskey, A.J. and Rha, C. (2005) Issues in plant cell culture engineering for enhancement of productivity. Developments in Chemical Engineering and Mineral Processing, 13 (5-6). pp. 573-587. ISSN 09691855 relation: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-24944560896&doi=10.1002%2fapj.5500130507&partnerID=40&md5=4d8d5f271963e3b04b415df47e691b0c relation: 10.1002/apj.5500130507 identifier: 10.1002/apj.5500130507