Overview of 3D Technology Applications in Plants: Phenomic, Mapping with Robotic Systems, Architectural Designs, Plant and Animal Tissue Culture Approaches

The fact that two-dimensional studies are insufficient about complex plant forms and allowing emerging technologies to give more detailed data leads researchers to search for new alternatives. The developments in plant biotechnology have changed rapidly over the past two decades, depending on the technological progresses such as microscopy, structural and functional plant modelling, phenotyping and genomic studies. Especially the studies which is called “phenomic” and plant researches working with phenotyping, are the popular research areas which interest to the researchers on recent years. Nowadays scientific researches and production techniques in agriculture, have been carried out more stability as digitally and visually. Fast improvements on robotic and sensor technologies come together with agricultural research have been opened up new horizons on agricultural biotechnology, for the plant architecture and even for plant tissues which is an excellent model for many researchers. Along with the phenotyping research on agricultural research, three-dimentional biotechnology is used on detection with robotic sensors and mapping. Also through computer algorithms which gave 3D structure of plant architectural designs, different products and artworks can be produced. The usage of 3D printing technologies to identify the plant tissues structure and function and for improvement of new culture systems to use at plant tissue culture techniques has been an important approach nowadays. Recently, potential of plant forms to be use in scaffold production have been studied because of the micro similarity of plant tissues with animal tissues in animal tissue engineering. Microfluidic systems, mostly used in animal cell culture techniques, are also intensively studied in research related to plant cells. The data obtained by all these techniques are used in many fields ranging from pest control on agriculture to the design of artificial organs on medicine, from the programming of computer games to forestry. In this article, we had tried to summarize studies about 3D technology on plant systems