Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : Mechanical Engineering Congress,Japan
Date : September 11, 2016 - September 14, 2016
We have succeeded in local and in-situ injection of reagent into a single plant cell by using the cavitation phenomena of micro-bubbles. Micro-bubbles were generated electrically by a novel device called “micro-bubble injector”. This device provides minimally invasive processing and high accessibility compared to conventional injection techniques such as electroporation, sonoporation and particle-gun methods. One of the strong point of this device is injection to the material which has wide dynamic range of hardness. Thus, it enables to applied to plant cells which have been difficult to be injected due to hard cell wall for a long time. This technology contributes to the biological and medical researches developments.
