Medicinal plants micropropagation

TISSUE CULTURE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS MICROPROPAGATION, TRANSFORMATION AND PRODUCTION OF USEFUL SECONDARY... 

Sheludko, Y. Gerasymenko, I. In Biotechnology for Medicinal Plants Micropropagation and Improvement Chandra, S., Lata, H., Varma, A., Eds. Springer Berlin, 2013 pp... 

Plant tissue culture technique is one of the promising tools to ensure sustainable use of plant resources. There are three main strategies used in the biotechnological application of medicinal plants. The first is micropropagation for mass production of nurseries, the second is synthetic/artificial production of secondary metabolites of medicinal value and the third is molecular breeding for crop improvement. 

In the next chapter, micropropagation, production of useful secondary metabolites by in vitro culture and transformation of medicinal plants by Agrobacterium for alternative sources of pharmaceuticals are described with special reference to ipecac plants. 

Nhut, D.T. Hien, N.T.T. Don, N.T. Khiem, D.V. (2007). In vitro shoot development of Taxus wallichiana Zucc., a valuable medicinal plant. In Jain, S.M. Haggman, H. (Ed(s).). Protocols for Micropropagation of Woody Trees and Fruits, Vol. 10, pp. 107-116. Springer-Verlag. 

D. J. McConnell. 1998. Ephedra species in vitro culture, micropropagation, and the production ephedrine and other alkaloids. In Bajaj, Y. P. S. (ed.). Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 41. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants X. Springer-Verlag. New York. p. 154-193. 

Wakhlu, A.K. and Sharma, R.K. (1998). Micropropagation of Heracleum candicans Wall. a rare medicinal herb. In-vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology of Plants, 35 79-81. 

Besides covering the important biotechnological inputs made in agriculture, this section also provides a brief account of advances being made in other areas of plant biotechnology, namely, conservation of germ plasm, micropropagation of tree and woody species for forest conservation, medicinal and aromatic plants etc. 

Debnath M, Malik CP, Bisen PS. Micropropagation a tool fra- the production of high quaUty plant-based medicines. Curr Pharm Biotecimol 2006 7(l) 33-49. 

Liliaceae plants have the important meaning for cultivation of the cut off flowers, potting of culture and creation of landscape compositions. Analyzed the literature on problems of micropropagation, receptions of the new forms and virus free plants. The directions of researches on perfection, technology of cultivation of a landing material, improvement from viruses are platmed. Many of these plants are medicinal. 

Sahoo, Y. Chand, P.K. (1998). Micropropagation of Vitex negundo L., a woody aromatic medicinal shrub, through high-frequency axillary shoot proliferation. Plant Cell Reports, Vol.18, No.3, Quly 1998), pp. 301-307, doi 10.1007/s002990050576, ISSN 0721-7714... 

---