Mass Production of Paclitaxel by Plant Cell Culture

Kinetics and thermodynamics of paclitaxel extraction from plant cell culture

−We investigated the effect of temperature on the efficiency of paclitaxel extraction from biomass. In addition, kinetic and thermodynamic studies of this extraction process were performed. The concentration of extracted paclitaxel increased with increasing extraction temperature and extraction time. When the experimental data were applied to various kinetic models, the hyperbolic model (second...

Plant cell culture strategies for the production of natural products

Plants have evolved a vast chemical cornucopia to support their sessile lifestyles. Man has exploited this natural resource since Neolithic times and currently plant-derived chemicals are exploited for a myriad of applications. However, plant sources of most high-value natural products (NPs) are not domesticated and therefore their production cannot be undertaken on an agricultural scale. Furth...

Plant cell culture in the production of flavour compounds.

Plants are an important source of natural flavourings for food. Plant-derived food flavours may be based on endogenous flavour compounds or be derived from flavour precursors following enzyme action when the tissue is disrupted or during a postharvest treatment. Such flavours are usually based either on a single compound or a small group of compounds with closely related chemical structure. How...

Impact of symbiotic fungi on Production of secondary metabolites by Plant Cell Culture

* Author for correspondence: Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi-110016, India. Tel: 91-11-26591707, Fax: 91-11-26582286, Email: vbisaria@dbeb. iitd.ac.in. Abstract. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are widespread and the most ancient symbiosis in the world. However, because of the absence of authentic pure cultures, commerc...

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