Question

Role of plant tissue culture in production of secondary metabolites

Answer 1

plant cell cultures represent a potential source of valuable secondary metabolites which can be used as food additives, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceuticals

the process for obtaining the secondary metabolites from plant cell cultures is represented as a multi-stage strategy, and each link should be described according to specifications of cell cultures or products. For the establishing of high-producing and fast-growing cell lines, the parent plants should be selected.

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Answer 2

• Plant tissue culture can produce a larger amount of secondary metabolites as compared to normal production by plants on field.

• It can help produce secondary metabolites in huge amount as in plant tissue culture the environment of the plants can be controlled in laboratory .

• In external environment the there might be a possibility that the plant cannot favour the synthesis of secondary metabolites .

• These secondary metabolites are not important for the plant interms of growth and development but can help in defense mechanism

• Example :antibiotics