Springer Plant Biotechnology and Medicinal Plants - Springer

Plant tissue culture and advanced biotechnologies have proven to be influential tools that complement conventional breeding and accelerate development of many medicinal plants. Various approaches, such as pathway engineering, precursor feeding, transformation, elicitation with biotic and abiotic elicitors and scaling up in bioreactors, have been explored to improve the production of secondary metabolites from different medicinal plants. This comprehensive book provides detailed studies of in vitro culture and hairy root cultures of Catharanthus roseus, Silybum mar and Foxglove, offering pharmaceutical professionals and researchers essential insights into modern plant biotechnology techniques for medicinal plant production and natural compound extraction.