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Journal of Agricultural Science and Botany | Volume: 2
November 15-16, 2018 | Paris, France
Plant Science
Natural Products,Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicines
International Conference on
Joint Event
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herapeutic compounds derived from herbs have become a
major part ofmedical prescriptions across theworld. Today’s
medicinal plants are important to the global economy, as
approximately 80% of traditional medicine preparations involve
the use of plants or plant extracts. However, pharmaceutical
industry cannot always depend on natural botanical sources of
drugsduetolimitedavailability,geneticinstabilityandconsequent
fluctuation in the yield. In addition to this, indiscriminate use
of plants for extraction of the valuable compounds can lead to
mass destruction, even leading to loss of biodiversity. The plant
secondary metabolites also referred to as phytochemicals are
low molecular weight compounds which are generally organ,
tissue and cell specific and are usually classified according to
their biosynthetic pathways and possess a range of therapeutic
properties, including antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-
carcinogenic, antioxidant and acetylcholinesterase inhibitory
activities, hence their use in phytomedicine for centuries.
The use of plant cell, tissue and organ culture for the production
of natural compounds is an area of intense research by virtue
of its biotechnological and economic implications. Extensive
efforts have been made in recent years for the production of
phytochemicals frommedicinal plants using
in vitro
techniques.
The details of strategies being exploited including rapid
multiplication,enhancementintheyieldofdrugcomponent,and
more importantly, metabolic engineering shall be discussed and
presentedusing few indigenousmedicinal model plants of India,
viz.
Withania somnifera, Bacopa monnieri, Boerhaavia diffusa,
Argyrolobium roseum, Crocus sativa, Kickxia ramosissima
, etc.
Speaker Biography
Sharada Mallubhotla PhD from Punjab University, Chandigarh, India, is presently
Academic Coordinator for School of Biotechnology at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University,
India. She has authored 26 publications, two books well cited over 175 times, and is
serving as editorial board member of reputed Journals. Her research interests include
production and manipulations of bioactive phytochemical metabolites from cell
and organ cultures, micropropagation, medicinal plant conservation Biotechnology,
Genetic engineering of medicinal plant species and Orchid Biotechnology. Currently
she is working on application of bioreactor systems for production of plant
bioactives, value additions through biotic and abiotic elicitation in plant cultures.
e:
sharda.p@smvdu.ac.inSharada Mallubhotla
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India
Medicinal Plant Biotechnology in India
Sharada Mallubhotla
, Plant science & Natural Medicine 2018, Volume 2
DOI: 10.4066/2591-7897-C1-001