Plant secondary biosynthetic pathways are exceedingly inducible by elicitors and facilitate
enhanced metabolite production using plant cell tissue and organ cultures. Elicitors can …

Cancer is a major killer disease all over the world and more than six million new cases are
reported every year. Nature is an attractive source of new therapeutic compounds, as a …

Agrobacterium rhizogenes is the etiological agent for hairy-root disease (also known as root-
mat disease). This bacterium induces the neoplastic growth of plant cells that differentiate to …

Medicinal plants produce a diverse group of phytocompounds like anthraquinones,
alkaloids, anthocyanins, flavonoids, saponins, and terpenes which are used in …

Lignans are found in a wide variety of plant species. The lignan podophyllotoxin is of special
interest, since its derivatives like eg etopophos® are used in anticancer therapy. As …

The natural lignan podophyllotoxin, a dimerized product of two phenylpropanoid moieties
which occurs in a few plant species, is a pharmacologically important compound for its …

An efficient protocol for hairy root induction in Berberis aristata DC. was established using
two different strains of Agrobacterium rhizogenes, MTCC 532 and 2364 from IMTECH …

Secondary metabolites from numerous plant sources have been developed as anti-cancer
reagents and compounds such as resveratrol, podophyllotoxin and zerumbone are of …

Podophyllotoxin is an aryltetralin lignan synthesized in several plant species, which is used
in chemotherapies for cancers and tumor treatment. More potent semisynthetic derivatives of …

The history of Agrobacterium-related plant biotechnology goes back for more than three
decades with the discovery of molecular mechanisms of crown gall disease in plants. After …