<? xm-replace_text {Heading}?> Abstract Plants synthesize a wide variety of natural
products, which are traditionally termed secondary metabolites and, more recently, coined …

This chapter provides a brief overview of the molecular biology of hairy root formation. It
summarises the value of hairy root cultures as a tissue culture tool for secondary metabolite …

In the past three decades, differentiated hairy root culture-related researches gained a great
attention due to the equal or greater bio-production capacity of low amount, high-value …

Environmental pollution is a global concern that is threatening the well-being of all life forms
including humans. The cost of cleaning up contaminated sites is high and phytoremediation …

Plant cell and tissue culture has been suggested as an alternative means for year-round
production of secondary metabolites with an added potential of increasing yields by culture …

Hairy root cultures (HRCs), induced by Agrobacterium rhizogenes infection, have been
established from a wide variety of plant species. HRCs accumulate phytochemicals to levels …

Hairy root cultures serve as a useful tool in the experiments aiming to understand plant
biology (eg functional analysis of gene function) which affects their use in biotechnology …

Hairy roots in plants are the manifestation of infection caused by Agrobacterium rhizogenes,
a gram negative soil bacterium. This phytopathogen transfers its large root-inducing (Ri) …

The growing scale of plant-based chemicals for industrial use has generated considerable
interest in developing methods to meet their desired production levels. Among various …

Variations at morphological, cytogenetical, cytochemical, biochemical, and molecular levels
have been reported in cell, callus cultures, clonally propagated plants, and in regenerated …