xPlant Pro Editorial Series

Tools of the Trade

Working guides to the equipment that runs a propagation lab — autoclaves, flow hoods, media preparation, and the records that keep each of them honest.

Illustration of a lab worker in a green cap opening a white sterilizer cabinet that holds a culture jar and a roll of indicator tape.
Sterilization capacity sets how much media a lab can make in a day.Illustration: xPlant Pro.

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Every instrument in a culture lab earns its bench space twice: once by doing its job, and once by leaving a record that it did. This series covers the hardware choices commercial propagation actually faces, at the scale where a wrong one costs a season.

Sterilization capacity sets how much media a lab can make in a day.Illustration: xPlant Pro.

Lab Equipment

Choosing an autoclave for a plant tissue culture lab

The autoclave quietly sets how much medium a lab can make in a day, so size it from your media volume, insist on a proper liquid cycle and plan the room before you buy.

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