Getting started
What xPlant is for
xPlant is a lab workflow tracker built for tissue culture and plant propagation. It gives your plants, explants, stages, and lab procedures a permanent, searchable home — replacing notebooks, spreadsheets, and memory.
The core data model
How records relate to each other
Everything in xPlant connects back to a plant. Plants have explants. Explants move through stages. Stages accumulate transfers, observations, and media context over their lifecycle.
The parent organism — a named record that groups all the culture material taken from one source plant.
A piece of tissue or culture derived from a plant. Each explant tracks its own stage history from initiation to acclimatization.
One step in an explant's lifecycle: Initiation, Multiplication, Rooting, Acclimatization, and so on. Each stage entry records observations, timing, room, and media context.
The act of moving culture material — logging who did it, when, which stage was entered, and any observations at the bench.
Other features
Supporting tools for the whole lab
SOPs
Standard operating procedures your lab follows. Attach them to transfers and log execution timestamps, notes, and outcomes each time they are run.
Media recipes
Documented formulations with ingredients, concentrations, and preparation notes. Reference a recipe on a stage to keep nutrient context close to the culture record.
Contamination logs
Record contamination events on any plant or explant. Capture what was observed, follow-up actions, and outcomes so patterns emerge over time.
Comments
Threaded discussion on any record. Mention teammates, pin decisions, reply to observations, and reference other plants or explants inline.
Lab rooms
Physical spaces in your facility. Assign stages to rooms so the dashboard reflects where every culture is right now.