Chemical Bioengineering in Plant Cell Culture

Plant cell culture originating from Cell Totipotency Theory was proposed by Haberlandt, a German botanist, in 1902. Plant cell secondary metabolites are widely used, have significant economic value, and can be made into medicines such as paclitaxel, ginsenosides, and artemisinin. The structures of 

Jasmonic acid (JA) and its methyl ester (MJA) are important members of the family of natural jasmonates. Exogenously adding MJA was shown to increase the production of secondary metabolites in a variety of plant species. Some synthetic elicitors have also been proven to be too. We describe a series of synthetic cell culture elicitors in Chapter 4, including MJA derivatives and benzothiadiazole (BTH) derivatives. Some of them display more potent activity in Taxus chinensis cell culture and Panax notoginseng cell culture than MJA, which reflects the full application of chemical bioengineering in plant cell culture. 

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Application of Chemical Bioengineering in Plant Cell Culture... 

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