The Physiology of Adventitious Roots

Adventitious roots and secondary metabolism.

Plants are a rich source of valuable secondary metabolites and in the recent years plant cell, tissue and organ cultures have been developed as an important alternative sources for the production of these compounds. Adventitious roots have been successfully induced in many plant species and cultured for the production of high value secondary metabolites of pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and indu...

Multicellular Root Hairs on Adventitious Roots of Kalanchoe Fedtschenkoi

Transcriptome profiling and comparative analysis of Panax ginseng adventitious roots

BACKGROUND Panax ginseng Meyer is a traditional medicinal plant famous for its strong therapeutic effects and serves as an important herbal medicine. To understand and manipulate genes involved in secondary metabolic pathways including ginsenosides, transcriptome profiling of P. ginseng is essential. METHODS RNA-seq analysis of adventitious roots of two P. ginseng cultivars, Chunpoong (CP) an...

Induction of DrsB1-CBDAvr4 Recombinant Protein in Hairy and Adventitious Roots of T1 Transgenic Plants

Hairy and adventitious roots are efficient systems for expressing recombinant proteins. In the present study, the amount of DrsB1-CBDAvr4 recombinant protein in hairy and adventitious root systems was compared. To this end, the effect of different factors on the optimization of culture conditions to obtain adventitious and hairy roots was evaluated in three separate experiments by assessment of...

Elongation by primary lateral roots and adventitious roots during conditions of hypoxia and high ethylene concentrations

Soil flooding results in unusually low oxygen concentra­ tions and high ethylene concentrations in the roots of plants. This gas composition had a strongly negative effect on root elongation of two Rumex species. The effect of low >xygen concentrations was less severe when roots conained aerenchymatous tissues, such as in R. palustris Sm. thyrsiflorus Fingerh., which has little root porosity, w...