PLANT TISSUE CULTURE – THE ALTERNATIVE AND EFFICIENT WAY TO EXTRACT PLANT SECONDARY METABOLITES

S Mukta, S R Ahmed, D Afrin
Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-13

Abstract:

Plants are potent biochemical factories. Plant cell culture systems represent a potential renewable source of valuable medicinal compounds, flavors, fragrances and colorants. Biotechnological applications of plant cell cultures present the most updated reviews on current techniques in this field. Various types of cultures like organ culture, shoot culture, root culture, callus culture, suspension culture play the important roles in extraction of secondary metabolite and this methods can be used in large scale production. The principal advantage of this technology is that it may provide continuous, reliable source of plant pharmaceuticals and could be used for the large scale culture of plant cells from which these metabolites can be extracted. Additionally, in the discovery of new medicines, plant cell culture technology plays an even more significant role in solving world hunger by developing agricultural crops that provide both higher yield and more resistance to pathogens and adverse environmental and climatic conditions. This callus and suspension culture methods can be able to play an important role in large scale production of bioactive secondary metabolites from plants

Keywords:

Secondary metabolite, tissue culture, suspension culture, callus.


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S Mukta, S R Ahmed, D Afrin. 2017. PLANT TISSUE CULTURE – THE ALTERNATIVE AND EFFICIENT WAY TO EXTRACT PLANT SECONDARY METABOLITES, Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University 4(1): 1-13.