The Plymouth Student Scientist
Document Type
Literature Review
Abstract
Tissue culturing of medicinal plants is widely used to produce active compounds for herbal and pharmaceutical industries. Conservation of genetic material of many threatened medicinal plants also involves culturing techniques. This work reviews in vitro micropropagation techniques and gives examples of various commercially important medicinal plants. The effect of media formulations and culturing techniques on the growth and multiplication of medicinal plants; and on the production of secondary metabolites is also reviewed. Another method of obtaining secondary metabolites is biotransformation; some famous pharmaceuticals obtained by this method are discussed briefly.
Publication Date
2011-07-01
Publication Title
The Plymouth Student Scientist
Volume
4
Issue
1
First Page
432
Last Page
449
ISSN
1754-2383
Deposit Date
May 2019
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Sidhu, Yaadwinder
(2011)
"In vitro micropropagation of medicinal plants by tissue culture,"
The Plymouth Student Scientist: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24382/swyq-fr06
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/tpss/vol4/iss1/4
