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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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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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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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Book and Reference Work
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Book and Living Reference Work (Continuously updated edition)
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Metabolic Engineering for Improving Production of Taxol
Taxol (generic name paclitaxel), a complex diterpenoid, is an efficient antineoplastic drug extracted from the plant. It has been approved for the management of several cancers including lungs, breast, and ova...
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Agrobacterium rhizogenes-Mediated Transformation in Medicinal Plants: Genetic Stability in Long-Term Culture
Variations at morphological, cytogenetical, cytochemical, biochemical, and molecular levels have been reported in cell, callus cultures, clonally propagated plants, and in regenerated plants in some plant spec...
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Effects of cryptogein gene on growth, phenotype and secondary metabolite accumulation in co-transformed roots and plants of Tylophora indica
Tylophora indica, an indigenous medicinal plant, was transformed with the cryptogein gene to determine the effect of crypt gene on secondary metabolites in co-transformed roots and plants...
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Micropropagation and genetic transformation of Tylophora indica (Burm. f.) Merr.: a review
This review provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of the in vitro culture of Tylophora species, which have medicinal properties.
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Agrobacterium rhizogenes-Mediated Transformation in Medicinal Plants: Genetic Stability in Long-Term Culture
Variations at morphological, cytogenetical, cytochemical, biochemical, and molecular levels have been reported in cell, callus cultures, clonally propagated plants, and in regenerated plants in some plant spec...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Metabolic Engineering for Improving Production of Taxol
Taxol (generic name paclitaxel), a complex diterpenoid, is an efficient antineoplastic drug extracted from the plant. It has been approved for the management of several cancers including lungs, breast, and ova...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
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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Article
Effects associated with insertion of cryptogein gene utilizing Ri and Ti plasmids on morphology and secondary metabolites are stable in Bacopa monnieri-transformed plants grown in vitro and ex vitro
Bacopa monnieri (Linn.) Wettst. (family Scrophulariaceae), a therapeutically important perennial herb, was transformed to study the stability of the effects associated with the insertion ...
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Genetic transformation of sarpagandha (Rauvolfia serpentina) with Agrobacterium rhizogenes for identification of high alkaloid yielding lines
An efficient transformation system for Rauvolfia serpentina, commonly known as “sarpagandha”, an important medicinal shrub of tropical countries of Asia, was established following infection with Agrobacterium rhi...
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Use of the cryptogein gene to stimulate the accumulation of bacopa saponins in transgenic Bacopa monnieri plants
Genetic transformation of the Indian medicinal plant, Bacopa monnieri, using a gene encoding cryptogein, a proteinaceous elicitor, via Ri and Ti plasmids, were established and induced bioproduction of bacopa sapo...
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Genetic transformation of Bacopa monnieri by wild type strains of Agrobacterium rhizogenes stimulates production of bacopa saponins in transformed calli and plants
We have developed an efficient transformation system for Bacopa monnieri, an important Indian medicinal plant, using Agrobacterium rhizogenes strains LBA 9402 and A4. Transformed roots induced by strain LBA 9402 ...