SBIR/STTR Research Award
A NEW LOW-COST DISPOSABLE BIOREACTOR FOR PLANT IN VITRO COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1994Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Agriculture
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- AgResearch International, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
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- Solicitation number
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- Topic code
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Research abstract
DESCRIBED IS A NEW LOW-COST DISPOSABLE BIOREACTOR FOR THE COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OF PLANT CELL SUSPENSIONS IN VITRO. DETERMINATION OF THE TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF OUR NEW TECHNOLGY IS PROPOSED. DEVELOPED BY AGRESEARCH INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND BASED ON PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS, OUR NEW LOWER COST BIOREACTOR AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY SHOULD PRODUCE GREATER SAVINGS AND ALLOW A WIDER RANGE OF SMALLER COMMERCIAL FIRMS, INCLUDING EXISTING MICROPROPAGATION COMPANIES, TO PROFIT FROM PRODUCTS PRODUCED BY PLANT CELL SUSPENSION CULTURE TECHNOLOGIES.
Technology keywords
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