Recent Advances of Plant Tissue Culture in Pharmaceuticals And Opportunities

Vitta kavya

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Recent Advances of Plant Tissue Culture in Pharmaceuticals And Opportunities

Vitta kavya

vittakavyasri@gmail.com

Gland Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kothapet, Shivampet (m), Medak, Telangana 502220, India

Corresponding Author(s) : Vitta kavya

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International Journal of Allied Medical Sciences and Clinical Research, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2021): 2021 Volume - 9 Issue - 2
Article Published : Jun 30, 2021

Abstract

India features a very rich plant biodiversity, many of which are medicinally useful. The rich resource is disappearing at an alarming rate as results of over- exploitation. Rapid agricultural development, increase, urbanization and therefore the indiscriminate collection of medicinal plants from the wild is resulted in an over-exploitation of natural resources. The traditional means of propagation takes an extended time for multiplication and also clonal non uniform. Plant in vitro regeneration may be a biotechnological tool that gives an incredible potential solution for the propagation of endangered and superior genotypes of medicinal plants which might be released to their natural habitat or cultivated on an outsized scale for the pharmaceutical product of interest. After the last four years of intensive research programmes in our laboratory, we are ready to micropropagate a number of the endangered and valuable medicinal plants species of this region. Plant tissue culture refers to growing and multiplication of cells, tissues and organs of plants on defined solid or liquid media under aseptic and controlled environment. The commercial technology is based on micro propagation, during which rapid proliferation is achieved from in system cuttings, axillary buds, and to a limited extent from somatic embryos, cell clumps in suspension cultures and bioreactors.

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Endangered in vitro Medicinal plants Plant tissue culture Protocols

Vitta kavya. (2021). Recent Advances of Plant Tissue Culture in Pharmaceuticals And Opportunities. International Journal of Allied Medical Sciences and Clinical Research, 9(2), 320-335. Retrieved from https://ijamscr.com/ijamscr/article/view/1021

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