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Plant Cells (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
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Plant Cells (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
Series: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, 72
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Plants produce more than 30,000 types of chemicals, including
pharmaceuticals, pigments and other fine chemicals, which is four
times more than those obtain ed from microbes. Plant cell culture
has been receiving great attention as an alternative for the
production of valuable plant derived secondary metabolites, since
it has many advantages over whole plant cultivation. However, much
more research is required to enhance the culture productivity and
reduce the pro cessing costs, which is the key to the
commercialization of plant cell culture pro cesses. The recent
achievements in related biochemical engineering studies are
reviewed in Chapter 1. The effect of gaseous compounds on plant
cell behavior has been little studied, and Chapter 2 focuses on
these gas concentration effects (including oxygen, carbon dioxide,
ethylene and others, such as volatile hor mones like methyl
jasmonate) on secondary metabolite production by plant cell
cultures. Two metabolites of current interest, i. e. , the
antimalarial artemisinin (known as "qing hao su" in China) that is
produced by Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood) and taxanes used for
anticancer therapy that are produced by species of Taxus, are taken
as examples. Bioprocess integration is another hot topic in plant
cell culture technology. Because most of the plant secondary meta
bolites are toxic to the cells at high concentrations during the
culture, removal of the product in situ during the culture can lead
to the enhanced productivity. Various integrated bioprocessing
techniques are discussed in Chapter 3.
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