title: Current approaches toward production of secondary plant metabolites.
abstract: Plants are the tremendous source for the discovery of new products with medicinal importance in drug development. Today several distinct chemicals derived from plants are important drugs, which are currently used in one or more countries in the world. Secondary metabolites are economically important as drugs, flavor and fragrances, dye and pigments, pesticides, and food additives. Many of the drugs sold today are simple synthetic modifications or copies of the naturally obtained substances. The evolving commercial importance of secondary metabolites has in recent years resulted in a great interest in secondary metabolism, particularly in the possibility of altering the production of bioactive plant metabolites by means of tissue culture technology. Plant cell and tissue culture technologies can be established routinely under sterile conditions from explants, such as plant leaves, stems, roots, and meristems for both the ways for multiplication and extraction of secondary metabolites. In vitro production of secondary metabolite in plant cell suspension cultures has been reported from various medicinal plants, and bioreactors are the key step for their commercial production. Based on this lime light, the present review is aimed to cover phytotherapeutic application and recent advancement for the production of some important plant pharmaceuticals.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharmacy, Integral University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Md Sarfaraj
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.forename: Sheeba
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fareed
authors.forename: Saba
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ansari
authors.forename: Md Akhlaquer
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.forename: Iffat Zareen
authors.initials: IZ
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.forename: Mohd
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saeed