Plant Secondary Metabolites (PSMs): Elicitation as a Strategy for Enhanced Biosynthesis in Plant Cell Cultures
Rajesh S.*
Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (641 003), India
Radhamani T.
Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (641 003), India
Varanavasiappan, S.
Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (641 003), India
Santhanakrishnan, V.P.
Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (641 003), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Elicitors, Plant cell cultures, Plant pharmaceuticals, Secondary metabolites
Abstract
Plant secondary metabolites isolated from the whole plants or trees in wild or from the cultivated plants leads to variation in the level of expression of PSMs as wells as there is questionable availability of raw materials for industrial use. Biotechnological production in plant cell cultures is a promising alternative but with limited commercial success due to poor understanding of how these metabolites is synthesized. Recent strategies deployed for enhanced synthesis of them using elicitors, precursors and selection of high yielding clones are bringing more success and is a big hope for using in vitro systems for PSMs production at industrial scale by the pharma companies.
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