Biotechnology: Time for plant cell culture?

Plant cell walls as targets for biotechnology.

Plants are the sources of major food, feed, and fiber products that are used globally. This past year has seen advances in our understanding of the enzymes that modify wall architecture, the cloning of the first cellulose synthase gene, and revisions to the lignin biosynthetic pathway. These discoveries have facilitated the development of new strategies to alter cell wall properties in transgen...

Albumin and mammalian cell culture: implications for biotechnology applications

Albumin has a long historical involvement in design of media for the successful culture of mammalian cells, in both the research and commercial fields. The potential application of albumins, bovine or human serum albumin, for cell culture is a by-product of the physico-chemical, biochemical and cell-specific properties of the molecule. In this review an analysis of these features of albumin lea...

Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture Biotechnology and Its Application in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

MAPs are increasing worldwide and continue to attract growing interest for farmers, traders, economists, teachers, professionals, health officials and various industries. The MAPs are natural biological resources that have a great potential to synthesize a huge variety of important secondary metabolites, also referred to as natural products, far more than animal and even microorganisms. Are def...

Plant Cell Culture

Plant Biotechnology

1 Department of Field Crops, Ankara University, 06110 Ankara, Turkey 2The Scientific and Technical Council of Turkey Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Institute, Gebze, 41470 Kocaeli, Turkey 3 Department of Biology Education, Gazi University, 06500 Ankara, Turkey 4Department of Biology, Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, 70200 Karaman, Turkey 5 Department of Agricultural Sciences, Section Pl...