Sosun.com
Title
Southern Sun Biosystems Inc.
Description
Micropropagation is a preferred propagation method used on a wide variety of crops. Rapid multiplication of disease free and/or new, high value plants has made tissue culture (micropropagation) a vital component of the agricultural, forestry, and pharmaceutical industries for production and research. High labor and facility costs, however, place constraints on the profitability of plant tissue culture. Efficient, industrial-type systems are necessary to replace traditional laboratory methods to assure commercial success. Moreover, when a viable commercial system is implemented, many other crops will be produced using tissue culture technology.
Tissue cultured crops are usually placed on agar-gelled medium so the tissue has access to nutrients while shoots and leaves develop in air. Agar costs more than all other media components combined. Moreover, tissue must be transferred frequently to vessels with fresh media since agar will limit diffusion of nutrients as cultures grow older. Agar can also trap deleterious plant produced toxins too close to the growing tissue. Manipulation of the environment of tissue cultured plants is not accommodated within traditional vessels.
Southern Sun's Liquid Lab™ systems allow bench-scale in vitro procedures involving plants, media, environment and information, to be flexibly designed and predictably executed throughout the entire process. This is based on years of observations that micropropaules experience growth and handling limitation in agar (Young et al. 1991). Bioreactors and vessels, tools, workstations, information systems, packaging systems, downstream shipping and delivery all are integrated in an advanced Liquid Lab™ System that can be tailored for needs of specific crop. Southern Sun’s Liquid Lab™ Products are an array of tools, both patented and proprietary, to resolve readily many of the current challenges facing producers of high-value plant products. In addition, we design our systems for robust application scenarios involving a wide range of labor and environmental variables.
Contact
Administrative:
-
- Greenwood SC
- US 29649
-
- 864-942-9600
Registrant:
- Chas Fox
-
- Hodges SC
- US 29653
