Ginseng biomass

In the past years it has been proven that large scale culturing of plant cells is feasible. The production of shikonin (1) and of ginseng biomass (2) are examples of a commercial scale production with plant cell cultures. 

Figure 2 shows the effect of the inoculated root tip part on the growth of P. ginseng hairy roots. The end part, whose apical meristem of root tip had been excised prior to inoculation, was grown to a total biomass 1.6 times greater than that of the center parts, which are the root tip part after being excised about 10 mm from the end part. In all experiments, new lateral branch formation was observed on the inoculated main root tip. 

Sivaknmar G, Yu KW, Pack KY (2005) Production of biomass and ginsenosides from adventitious roots of Panax ginseng in bioreactor cultures. Eng Life Sci 5 333-342... 

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