Secondary metabolites production morphological changes

The most important fields of research for industrial applications, plant cell tissue and organ cultures are clonal propagation and secondary metabolite production. Plants cultivated in vitro have great changes in their morphological features, from cell tissue to differentiated embryo, roots, shoots or plantlets. 

FIGURE 40.2 Secondary metabolites morphological changes in chitin treatment. (From Ahmed, A.B.A. et al., In vitro production of gymnemic acid from Gymnema sylvestre (Retz) R.Br. Ex. Roemer Schultes through callus culture under stress conditions, In Jain, S.K. and Saxena, P.K. (eds.). Protocols for In Vitro Cultures and Secondary Metabolites Analysis of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Serious Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 547, Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ, 2009, p. 93. With permission.)... 

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