Natural Products from Plant Cell Cultures

Elizabeth McCoy; Sarah E. O'Connor

doi:10.1007/978-3-7643-8117-2_9

Natural Products from Plant Cell Cultures

Elizabeth McCoy
, Sarah E. O'Connor

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Abstract

Plants produce complex small molecules - natural products - that exhibit anticancer, antimalarial and antimicrobial activity. These molecules play a key role in human medicine. However, plants typically produce these compounds in low quantities, and harvesting plant natural products is frequently expensive, time-consuming and environmentally damaging. Plant cell culture provides a renewable, easily scalable source of plant material. In this chapter we discuss the successes and pitfalls associated with natural product production in plant cell cultures.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Natural Compounds as Drugs
Subtitle of host publication	Volume I
Editors	Frank Petersen, René Amstutz
Publisher	Springer
Pages	329-370
Number of pages	42
Volume	65
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8117-2_9
Publication status	Published - 2008

Publication series

Name	Progress in Drug Research
Publisher	Birkhauser Verlag Basel
ISSN (Print)	0071-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	2297-4555

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