A large number of plant species from several families have been successfully transformed
by Agrobacterium rhizogenes and established in culture. In contrast to normal roots, the Ri …

Nature's own genetic engineer Agrobacterium rhizogenes was discovered more than 40
years ago, and an increasing number of publications on the use of hairy roots in …

The karyotypic status of three root lines, transformed with Agrobacterium rhizogenes, versus
a non-transformed root line of Datura stramonium, as well as grown plants (control), was …

In addition to the primary metabolites, plants produce a vast number of chemically diversified
economically valuable secondary metabolites (SMs) in specific cell types or tissue or organ …

In order to solve the shortage of natural Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. f. plant resource for the
production of the important secondary metabolites triptolide and wilforine, hairy roots were …

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

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often limited because of the lack of safe, effective, and accessible vaccines. Traditional …

This review is concerned with the application of hairy roots, ie plant roots formed from plant
cells after transformation by Agrobacterium rhizogenes for the production of bioactive …

Eighteen transformed root cultures from 7 Psoralea plant species (Leguminosae) were
established with the objective of producing daidzein and related flavonoids. All the 18 hairy …

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 …