Secondary metabolites (SM) are compounds that are not necessary for a cell (organism) to
live, but play a role in the interaction of the cell (organism) with its environment. These …

Secondary metabolites not only play vital role in plant defense against herbivory and other
interspecies defenses but also used by humans as medicines, flavorings, pharmaceuticals …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don is a well known
medicinal plant belonging to family Apocynaceae that have been traditionally used as …

Plants are the tremendous source for the discovery of new products with medicinal
importance in drug development. Today several distinct chemicals derived from plants are …

Plant secondary metabolites are unique sources for pharmaceuticals, food additives, flavors,
and other industrial materials. Accumulation of such metabolites often occurs in plants …

Plant cell and tissue cultures can be established routinely under sterile conditions from
explants, such as plant leaves, stems, roots, meristems etc for both the ways for …

Catharanthus roseus is a medicinal plant belonging to the family Apocynaceae which
produces terpenoid indole alkaloids (TIAs) of high medicinal importance. Indeed, a number …

Tissue culture is the in vitro aseptic culture of cells, tissues, organs or whole plant under
controlled nutritional and environmental conditions [1] often to produce the clones of plants …

Pharmaceutically significant secondary metabolites or phytopharmaceuticals include
alkaloids, glycosides, flavonoids, volatile oils, tannins, resins etc. Currently, most of these …

Plant cell culture systems represent a potential renewable source of valuable medicinal
compounds, flavors, fragrances, and colorants, which cannot be produced by microbial cells …