Medicinal roots. (spectrum).(commercial tissue culture)

Ecos | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

A disease of plants could help scientists produce remedies for human ailments. `Hairy root', occurs when the soil bacterium, Agrobacterium rhizogenes, infects wounded plant cells, triggering the production of a malignant mass of fine roots. In nature, this leads to stunted plants. But in the laboratory, hairy roots can be harnessed to produce plant extracts with nutriceutical and pharmaceutical value.

Dr Philip Franks of Food Science Australia, and his colleagues in the CRC for Bioproducts, are investigating the use of hairy roots to mass-produce the active ...

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