ISHS Acta Horticulturae 73: I International Symposium on Spices and Medicinal plants
TISSUE CULTURES IN MEDICAL PLANT BREEDING AND CULTIVATION |
| Authors: | H. Moβner, Franz -C. Czygan |
| Abstract:
Plant cell or callus tissue cultures have been used with great success in theoretical problems of biological research as well as in the field of horticulture and agriculture. Therefore tissues of medical plants should be useful subjects in solving problems of pharmaceutical biology, the area of biogenic medicaments. Above all this may be of importance for the production of such substances which cannot be synthesized by chemistry in sufficient amounts economically. The technique of tissue cultures may bring advantages similar to such known from biomethods in producing antibiotics. - Beyond this cell cultures are resources for the cultivation of high-yield strains and of virus-free strains of intact medical plants. Especially haploid tissues and plants as well as protoplast cultures may show aspects for breeding and cultivation better medical plants in future. - Examples from the Wüurzburg Pharmaceutical Biology (i.e. production of thebaine by Papaver-bracteatum-tissue and of indole-alkaloids by Catharanthus-tissue; haploid and protoplast cultures) support the reflections about this new field in biological research. | |
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