Optimising Gelling Agents, Light Source and After-care to Commercialise Teak Tissue Culture

Tragacanth, a Novel and Cheap Gelling Agent in Carnation and Miniature Rose Tissue Culture Media

The natural tragacanth gum, the sap of Astragalus gummifer, has been successfully used as a gelling agent in tissue culture media for in vitro shoot development and proliferation of miniature rose and carnation. Shoot development of nodal segments excised from greenhouse grown plants, was investigated on MS medium solidified with either 2.5, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0% tragacanth or 0.8% agar as control....

Adaptation of Horsesickness Virus to Tissue Culture

Examination of gelling agents to produce acetaminophen jelly.

The current study used 3 types of carrageenan (denoted here as Car)-κ, ι, and λ-to prepare a jelly vehicle for acetaminophen (AAP), and then compared their usefulness as jelly vehicles. The rheological characteristics of each preparation were assessed and then drug elution from the preparation was assessed using dissolution testing. The behavior of each preparation when immersed in water was al...

Nrdc to Commercialise Herbal Beer & Lipstick

The Natural Product Development Division (consisting of pharmacognosy, Elthno pharmacology and phytochemistry) of national Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow is engaged in the development of scientifically validated and standardized value added diverse herbal product with the objectives of converting our rich bio-diversity and the associated traditional knowledge and wisdom to economi...

Plant tissue culture studies in Sorghum bicolor: immature embryo explants as the source material

Sorghum is a wonder crop from physiological point of view. It is the most important cereal crop, after rice and wheat.  The number of reports describing the use of transgenic Sorghum for basic studies in Biotechnology is still limited when compared to other crops. In one hand, the success of the transformation techniques is mainly dependent upon the availability of optimal protocols for highly ...