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Recent advances in medicinal plant biotechnology

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Title Recent advances in medicinal plant biotechnology
 
Creator Khan, Mohammad Yaseen
Aliabbas, Saleh
Kumar, Vimal
Rajkumar, Shalini
 
Subject Medicinal plants
Biotechnology
Combinatorial biosynthesis
DNA microarray
Transgenic plants
 
Description 9-22
Medicinal plants are the most important source of life saving drugs for the majority of the world’s population. Plant secondary metabolites are economically important as drugs, fragrances, pigments, food additives and pesticides. The biotechnological tools are important to select, multiply, improve and analyze medicinal plants. In-vitro production of secondary metabolites in plant cell suspension cultures has been reported from various medicinal plants and bioreactors are the key step towards commercial production of secondary metabolites by plant biotechnology. Genetic transformation is a powerful tool for enhancing the productivity of novel secondary metabolites; especially by Agrobacterium tumefacians. Combinatorial biosynthesis is another approach in the generation of novel natural products and for the production of rare and expensive natural products. DNA profiling techniques like DNA microarrays serve as suitable high throughput tools for the simultaneous analysis of multiple genes and analysis of gene expression that becomes necessary for providing clues about regulatory mechanism, biochemical pathways and broader cellular functions.
 
Date 2009-02-04T07:24:12Z
2009-02-04T07:24:12Z
2009-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0972-5849
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2963
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher CSIR0972-5849
 
Source IJBT Vol.8(1) [January 2009]