New clean bench for plant cell cultures installed

A new safety cabinet was installed today for our plant cell laboratory. By strictly separating our plant cell cultures from other (micro)biological systems, we hope to improve process stability and shorten development times.

If you would like to find out more about our recent work with plants and plant cell cultures, you can find the relevant information here: 

• A. Schmeckebier, C. Ebel, J. Haffelder, C. Müller-Renno, C. Ziegler, A. Zayed, J. Stiefelmaier, R. Ulber; A method for cell separation of Ocimum basilicum CMC cells for AFM measurement; Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-024-02708-6 
• Strieth, D., Kollmen, J., Stiefelmaier, J., Mehring, A., Ulber, R. (2024). Co-cultures from Plants and Cyanobacteria: A New Way for Production Systems in Agriculture and Bioprocess Engineering. In: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10_2023_247
• M.A. Salem, H.E. Abo Mansour, E.M. Mosalam, R.A. El‑Shiekh, S.M. Ezzat, A. Zayed; Valorization of by-products Derived from Onions and Potato: Extraction Optimization, Metabolic Profile, Outstanding Bioactivities, and Industrial Applications; Waste and Biomass Valorization (2023) doi.org/10.1007/s12649-022-02027-x
• A. Zayed, M.A. Farag, A. Mehring, M.A. Salem, R.M. Ibrahim, S. Alseekh, A.R. Fernie, R. Ulber; Methyl jasmonate elicitation effect on the metabolic profile of cambial meristematic cells culture derived from sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) in relation to antioxidant activity: Untargeted metabolomics study in a time-based approach; Phytochemistry (2023) 113777, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2023.113777
• A. Mehring, A. Zayed, M.A. Salem, S. Alseekh, A.R. Fernie, R. Ulber; Time-dependent behaviour of methyl jasmonate elicited cell suspension cultures of Ocimum species via untargeted mass spectrometry-based metabolomics; Industrial Crops & Products (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2022.115414