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Bioactive Compounds and Biological Activities of Tuber Fleeceflower Root (Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.)
Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. is an important medicinal plant in North America and East and Southeast Asia. Its tuberous roots contain numerous bioactive compounds, including anthraquinones, stilbenes, tannin, and...
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Importance of Underground Storage Organs in Plants (for Their Survival and Perpetuation and for Human Welfare)
Herbaceous terrestrial plants – both dicots and monocots – are classified as geophytes when they generate underground storage organs like bulbs, corms, tubers, and tuberous roots. These structures allow develo...
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Production of anthraquinones from cell and organ cultures of Morinda species
Since ancient times, Morinda species, particularly Morinda citrifolia, have been used for their therapeutic benefits. Iridoids, anthraquinones, coumarins, flavonoids, lignans, phytosterols, and carotenoids are ex...
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Production of Chlorogenic Acid and Quercetin from Adventitious Root Cultures of Hypericum perforatum L.
Hypericum perforatum L., commonly known as St. John’s wort, is one of the medicinal plants that have been used for centuries in several European countries to cure skin wounds, burns, and neuralgia. It is addition...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Importance of Underground Storage Organs in Plants (for Their Survival and Perpetuation and for Human Welfare)
Herbaceous terrestrial plants – both dicots and monocots – are classified as geophytes when they generate underground storage organs like bulbs, corms, tubers, and tuberous roots. These structures allow develo...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Bioactive Compounds and Biological Activities of Tuber Fleeceflower Root (Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.)
Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. is an important medicinal plant in North America and East and Southeast Asia. Its tuberous roots contain numerous bioactive compounds, including anthraquinones, stilbenes, tannin, and...
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Optimal β-galactosidases for producing high-titer 3,6-anhydro-L-galactose from red-algal agarobiose
3,6-Anhydro-L-galactose (L-AHG) is a monomeric sugar in agarose derived from red macroalgae. Owing to its various physiological activities such as anti-inflammation, moisturizing, skin whitening, anti-colon ca...
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Establishment of bioreactor cultures for the production of chlorogenic acid and ferulic acid from adventitious roots by optimization of culture conditions in Angelica acutiloba (Siebold & Zucc.) Kitag
Adventitious roots were induced from root explants of Angelica acutilobaand suspension cultures were established in shake flasks. The effect of different concentrations of indole acetic acid (IBA, 0–38.4 µM), the...
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Brazzein protein production in transgenic carrot cells using air-lift bioreactor culture
Recombinant-protein production in plants is a more effective system than the mammalian cell system because it can be more easily scaled up, has a low production cost, and is animal pathogen free. In this study...
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Microfluidic Single-cell Trap** and Cultivation for the Analysis of Host-viral Interactions
The isolation of single cells and their further cultivation in confined chambers are essential to the collection of statistically reliable temporal information in cell-based biological experiments. In this wor...
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Domestication of Andrographis paniculata (King of Bitters)
Andrographis paniculata (AP) is popularly known as ‘ ’, and it is an important medicinal plant which is cultivated in Southeast Asia and other tropical parts of the world. AP contains monoterpenoids, , , and ...
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Biotechnological Production of Useful Phytochemicals from Adventitious Root Cultures
A potent cluster of phytochemicals produced within plants are used as pharmaceuticals, health-promoting substances, biopesticides/agricultural, and industrial chemicals. Various attempts of producing phytochem...
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Open AccessLarge-scale production of recombinant miraculin protein in transgenic carrot callus suspension cultures using air-lift bioreactors
Miraculin, derived from the miracle fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum), is a taste-regulating protein that interacts with human sweet-taste receptors and transforms sourness into sweet taste. Since miracle fruit is cu...
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Increased brazzein expression by abiotic stress and bioreactor culture system for the production of sweet protein, brazzein
Plant-based recombinant protein production systems are powerful tools that can be used instead of microbial and animal cell culture systems. The aim of this study was to establish a stable brazzein production ...
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Effect of nutritional factors on the accretion of secondary metabolites in Malaysian ginseng adventitious root cultures
In this study, we aimed to verify the effect of nutritional factors on the accretion of secondary metabolites in the adventitious root (AR) cultures of Malaysian ginseng (Eurycoma longifolia Jack) grown in small-...
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Enhanced biosynthesis of triterpenoids in Centella asiatica hairy root culture by precursor feeding and elicitation
Centella asiatica contains various triterpenoids, including madecassoside, asiaticoside, madecassic acid, and asiatic acid. Among them, they are mainly contained in leaf, and among them asiaticoside is known as t...
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Open AccessCellulase recycling in high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated empty fruit bunches
The lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks such as empty fruit bunches (EFBs) prove to be potential renewable resources owing to their abundance, low prices, and high carbohydrate contents. Generally, the conversi...
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Attributes of Polygonum multiflorum to transfigure red biotechnology
A vast array of plant-based compounds has enriched red biotechnology to serve the human health and food. A peculiar medicinal plant which was an element of traditional Chinese medicine for centuries as a liver...