Kiranjeet Kaur Biotechnologist

  Secondary metabolites obtained from medicinal plant species by using Tissue culture Techniques 20 medicinal plant species used for the production of secondary metabolites P lants play a dominant role in the introduction of new therapeutics agents and also drugs from the higher plants continue to occupy an important niche in modern medicine. Pharmaceuticals companies depend largely upon materials procured from naturally occurring strands that are being rapidly depleted because of the use of parts like roots, barks, wood, stem, and the whole plant in the case of herbs. This poses a definite threat to the genetic stocks and the diversity of medicinal plants.  Plant tissue culture is an alternative method of propagation and is being used widely for the commercial propagation of a large number of plant species, including many medicinal plants. For some years, there has been great interest in the exploitation of plant cell cultures to produce fine chemicals. Plant material enriche...

  Micropropagation- In vitro propagation The miniature version of conventional propagation Image credit/John Lambeth/pexels.com P lant tissue culture is used to maintain or grow plant cells by in vitro cultivation under aseptic and controlled environment conditions. In short plant tissue culture is a collection of techniques used for the production of virus-free plants, for the production of artificial seeds and trangenic pants, for the varietal improvements of plants, and many more. In other terms, it is an experimental technique through which callus ( a mass of cells) is produced from explant cells. Tissue culture refers to the growth of organs, tissues, and cells in an artificial medium. Gottlieb Haberlandt is  considered a father of plant tissue culture because in  1902 he suggested that “ one could successfully cultivate artificial embryos from vegetative cells”.The idea of Totipotency was conceived by him. He was the first to culture isolated, fully differentiated ...