Polish Achievements in Bioactive Compound Production From In Vitro Plant Cultures

by: Agnieszka Pietrosiuk; Anna Budzianowska; Jaromir Budzianowski; Halina Ekiert; Małgorzata Jeziorek; Anna Kawiak; Małgorzata Kikowska; Mirosława Krauze-Baranowska; Aleksandra Królicka; Łukasz Kuźma; Maria Łuczkiewicz; Janusz Malarz; Adam Matkowski; Anna Stojakowska; Katarzyna Sykłowska-Baranek; Agnieszka Szopa; Wojciech Szypuła; Barbara Thiem; Sylwia Zielińska

Publication date: 2022-09-08

Usage: Attribution 4.0 International

Topics: bioreactors, biotransformation, elicitation, hairy roots, multiple shoots, plant tissue cultures, secondary metabolites, undiﬀerentiated cultures

Publisher: Polish Botanical Society

Collection: polish-botanical-society; journals

Language: English

Plant cell and organ cultures are potential sources of valuable secondary metabolites that can be used as food additives, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and pharmaceuticals. Phytochemical biosynthesis in various in vitro plant cultures, in contrast to that in planta, is independent of environmental conditions and free from quality fluctuations.

Pharmaceutical application of plant biotechnology is of interest to almost all departments of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Institute of Pharmacology in Poland with a botanical profile (Pharmaceutical Botany, Pharmacognosy, and Pharmacology).

This study discusses the advances in plant biotechnology for the production of known metabolites and/or biosynthesis of novel compounds in plant cell and organ in vitro cultures in several scientific centers in Poland.