Biologists increased the proportion of medicinal substances in plants
TSU biologists have developed a technology for obtaining cell cultures with a high content of a number of biologically active substances (BAS). It is important for pharmaceuticals, and will also help to conserve endangered species of medicinal plants.
The Department of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology has already received cell cultures and microclones of medicinal plants containing substances with anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, nootropic, and sedative effects: flavonoids, saponins, furanocoumarins, ecdysteroids, and others. It also selected variants of nutrient media, thanks to which the amount of BAS has increased.
– Not all herbal medicinal substances have synthetic analogs, and the use of plants from natural populations causes severe damage to the latter and requires high costs. Therefore, currently many BASs are being obtained by a special process of growing cell cultures, – says Irina Golovatskaya, professor at the Department of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology.
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