title: Natural products from plant cell cultures.
abstract: Plants produce complex small molecules - natural products - that exhibit anticancer, antimalarial and antimicrobial activity. These molecules play a key role in human medicine. However, plants typically produce these compounds in low quantities, and harvesting plant natural products is frequently expensive, time-consuming and environmentally damaging. Plant cell culture provides a renewable, easily scalable source of plant material. In this chapter we discuss the successes and pitfalls associated with natural product production in plant cell cultures.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: McCoy
authors: Sarah E
authors: SE
authors: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D001688:Biological Products / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques; D002460:Cell Line; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D015394:Molecular Structure; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D059828:Plant Cells; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations