Medicinal plants have been used by mankind since ancient times, and many bioactive plant
secondary metabolites are applied nowadays both directly as drugs, and as raw materials …

Hairy roots derived from the infection of a plant by Rhizobium rhizogenes (previously
referred to as Agrobacterium rhizogenes) bacteria, can be obtained from a wide variety of …

Plants have evolved a vast chemical cornucopia to support their sessile lifestyles. Man has
exploited this natural resource since Neolithic times and currently plant-derived chemicals …

Great progress has been made over the past decade with respect to the application of
biotechnology to generate nutritionally improved food crops. Biofortified staple crops such as …

Plants are one of the vital sources of secondary metabolites. These secondary metabolites
have diverse roles in human welfare, including therapeutic implication. Nevertheless …

In recent years, hairy roots (HRs) have been successfully used as research tools for
screening the potentialities of different plant species to tolerate, accumulate, and/or remove …

Abstract Key Message When one of them was inhibited, the two pathways could
compensate with each other to guarantee normal growth. Moreover, the sterol biosynthesis …

Diterpenoids are important compounds for plant survival and have beneficial properties for
humans. Bioactive abietanic diterpenes are synthesized in roots of Salvia sclarea (eg …

This article comments on: Barba-Espín G, Chen ST, Agnolet S, Hegelund JN, Stanstrup J,
Christensen JH, Müller R, Lütken H. 2020. Ethephon-induced changes in antioxidants and …

The in vitro cultures of Rindera graeca, a rare endemic plant, were developed as a
sustainable source of phenolic acids. Various shoot and root cultures were established and …