Tissue culture tour | Plantistry

From the mother plant to the sale

One begonia, followed through the lab.

Every step writes to the same record, so a jar always knows its mother plant and a deflasked plant always knows its jar.

BG-000071Mother plantBegonia masoniana, with its species profile and its place in the family tree.
TC-000006CultureStarted from BG-000071 with seven cups. Each cup is a jar from day one.
Jar 3.2Round SC1Jar 3 was cut into 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3. Contamination was marked on 3.2, not on the round.
V-000063LabelPrinted at the bench from the phone. Scan it and this jar opens, with its next actions ready.
BG-000020Deflasked plantKnows its jar, its culture and its mother plant. Rooting and acclimatising are chores on the calendar.
ListingSold with provenanceOn the marketplace with its lineage and photos, or traded plant for plant, alongside the lab's own used equipment.

Species libraryThe mother plant's species gives the conditions to grow it under, as targets for the shelf.

Family treeA cultivar's parents, and theirs, back to the wild species; your crosses join the same tree.

ExperimentsTreatments and replicates are jars too, so the winner becomes the protocol for the next culture.

A closer look

Pick a feature to see its screen.

Start from the mother plant

Pick the plant, the explant, the protocol and the media batch, and say how many cups the explants went into. The culture opens with its source on record.

Any plant in your collection, found by name or by scrolling.
The protocol's stages carry their recipes, so the next steps are already planned.

A culture line with its source plant, explant, protocol and the jars it started with

Every cup is a jar, with its own label

Seven cups make seven jars on the day you start, numbered 1 to 7. Print their labels on a sheet or, one at a time, from a label printer at the bench.

Labels say what's inside: the line and the jar's path, the plant and the date.
Quick print from your phone to a Brother label printer on the lab Wi-Fi.
Collect a sheet as you go across cultures, and print it once.

Jar labels laid out for a label printer roll, each with its QR code, line, jar, plant and date

The culture on the phone, with Quick print for its labels

Subculture jar by jar

Cut jar 3 into four and the new jars are 3.1 to 3.4. Every jar knows the jar it came from, round after round, so a good line can be followed back to the cup it started in.

Say how many jars each jar went into; the new labels print in that order.
Trace any jar to its mother plant in one click.

Completing a subculture: how many new jars each jar went into, labelled 2.1, 2.2, 3.1 and so on

Catch contamination where it happens

Scan the cloudy jar and mark it. Contamination is recorded against that jar, not as a count for the round, so you can see what the bad ones shared: the batch, the shelf, the day, the hands.

One tap on the phone, with the contaminant if you know it.
A slip is undone as easily: “Not contaminated after all”.
Rates by media batch point at the batch that went bad.

The lineage of a culture, round by round, with the contaminated jar marked

One jar on the phone: Subculture from this jar, Mark contaminated, Discard, Quick print label

Media at the bench

Open the recipe on your phone, type the volume you're pouring or how many containers, and read off what to weigh: powder, sugar, agar and every hormone, in grams, milligrams or millilitres of stock.

Batch calculator on every recipe, on the web and the phone.
Batches counted in containers, with write-offs, and which jars each went into.
The pH to adjust to shown wherever the recipe is read.

A recipe opened on the Media tab with its batch calculator: type the volume, read off what to weigh

The same recipe and calculator on the phone

Find out what works

Set up treatments and replicates, observe them from the bench, and Plantistry works out the results, with the best treatment starred. Then make the winner your protocol.

Treatment matrices with replicates labelled like any jar.
Results computed, not copied into a spreadsheet.

An experiment: survival, contamination and shoot induction across its replicates

Deflask, and every plant knows where it came from

Plants come out of a jar already linked to it, and through it to the mother plant. Rooting, acclimatising, selling: the lineage goes with them.

Sell with provenance on the marketplace, or sell the protocol itself.

A plant record that came from another plant, with its parentage and the day it was started

The same plant on the phone, with Mark rooted

A lab where every jar knows its mother plant.

What a tissue culture lab gets.

One begonia, followed through the lab.

Pick a feature to see its screen.

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