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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Secondary Metabolites Identification Techniques of the Current Era
Plants possess a vast spectrum of specialized metabolites with various chemical structures and biological functions responsible for plant fitness, adaptability, and ecosystem services. They are also a central ...
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Cytogenetic Diversity in Scilloideae (Asparagaceae): a Comprehensive Recollection and Exploration of Karyo-Evolutionary Trends
The family Asparagaceae (subfamily Scilloideae, APG III, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161:105–121, 2009) constitutes approximately 1000 species in about 33 genera of deciduous bulbous geophytes with l...
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Correction to: Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Conservation
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The Current Status of Population Extinction and Biodiversity Crisis of Medicinal Plants
Loss of biodiversity or species extinction (the disappearance of existing species from the earth) and speciation (the origin of new species) are natural, fundamental, and irreversible biological processes that...
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Medicinal Plants and Bioactive Phytochemical Diversity: A Fountainhead of Potential Drugs Against Human Diseases
The diversity of bioactive phytochemicals in plants of medicinal importance is the most precious gift of nature. The floral and phytochemical diversity of earth has been exploited as a primary source of life-s...
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The Potential Role of Medicinal Plants, Traditional Herbal Medicines, and Formulations to Overcome SARS-CoV-2 Induced Health Crisis
Since December 2019, the infection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-related Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), also known as novel coronavirus, has been responsible for the biggest global public health crisis in ...
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A simple and efficient protocol for hairy root culture of Arabidopsis thaliana
Hairy root culture (HRC) represent a valuable biotechnological tool for the production of plant secondary metabolites. Secondary metabolome study of Arabidopsis thaliana may help to understand the biological role...
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Effects associated with insertion of rol genes on morphogenic potential in explants derived from transgenic Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettst
The present study deals with the establishment of rolA-transgenic and rolB-transgenic plants for the first time through Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation, exploiting the inherent morphogenic poten...
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A phylogenetic analysis of Momordica (Cucurbitaceae) in India based on karyo-morphology, nuclear DNA content and rDNA ITS1–5.8S–ITS2 sequences
The infrageneric delimitation of Momordica, a medicinally important genus of Cucurbitaceae, is ill-defined until date. Momordica chromosomes are extremely small and are difficult to stain and visualize because of...
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Medicinal Plant Research at Crossroads: Biotechnological Approaches for Conservation, Production and Stability in Tissue Cultures and Regenerated Plants
Medicinal plants are treasures of nature with almost never-ending resource of unlimited, diverse, complex and valuable natural compounds with a variety of pharmacological properties. They are used worldwide by...
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Morphogenesis, Genetic Stability, and Secondary Metabolite Production in Untransformed and Transformed Cultures
In addition to the primary metabolites, plants produce a vast number of chemically diversified economically valuable secondary metabolites (SMs) in specific cell types or tissue or organ of phylogenetically re...
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Targeted profiling reveals metabolic perturbations in cryptogein-cotransformed hairy root cultures of Nicotiana tabacum
Although β-cryptogein gene expression was known to induce growth and phenolic metabolites accumulation in tobacco, however, the consequence on specialized metabolites other than phenolic has been scantly studied,...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Morphogenesis, Genetic Stability, and Secondary Metabolite Production in Untransformed and Transformed Cultures
In addition to the primary metabolites, plants produce a vast number of chemically diversified economically valuable secondary metabolites (SMs) in specific cell types or tissue or organ of phylogenetically re...
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A new online database on genome-related information of Indian plants
In this paper, we present a new online comprehensive database developed for genome-related information of Indian plants (dGRIP). In strict sense, dGRIP database displays for each species and genus, its chromos...
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Open AccessA molecular phylogeny of the genus Drimia (Asparagaceae: Scilloideae: Urgineeae) in India inferred from non-coding chloroplast and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences
The evolutionary history of the medicinally important bulbous geophyte Drimia (subfamily: Scilloideae) has long been considered as a matter of debate in the monocot systematics. In India the genus is represented ...
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Hairy Roots and Phytoremediation
Contamination of the environment arises either from natural geological processes or due to human activities and has created an alarming situation worldwide. Biological strategies for cleaning up contaminated b...
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A Critical Review on Biotechnological Interventions for Production and Yield Enhancement of Secondary Metabolites in Hairy Root Cultures
In the past three decades, differentiated hairy root culture-related researches gained a great attention due to the equal or greater bio-production capacity of low amount, high-value secondary metabolites as c...
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The Effects of rol Genes of Agrobacterium rhizogenes on Morphogenesis and Secondary Metabolite Accumulation in Medicinal Plants
Induction of hairy roots by Agrobacterium rhizogenes and regeneration of Ri-transformed plants from such transgenic roots are reported in a large number of taxonomically diverse plant species. Ri-transformed cult...
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Morpho-histological characterization and direct shoot organogenesis in two types of explants from Bacopa monnieri on unsupplemented basal medium
In the present study, high frequency regeneration has been obtained via de novo direct shoot organogenesis from leaf and internode explants in Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal medium without any phytohormone sup...
