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In Vitro Approaches for Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Podophyllum hexandrum and Picrorhiza kurroa: Endangered Medicinal Herbs of Western Himalaya

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The western Himalaya is a rich repository of unique plants that are valued for their medicinal properties. Many of these plants are extensively utilized in pharmaceutical industries, and there is a huge global demand for them. Since most of these plants have become either rare, threatened, or endangered, there is an urgent need to conserve them. Podophyllum hexandrum and Picrorhiza kurroa are two endangered medicinal herbs that are being ruthlessly uprooted for their active principles, i.e., podophyllotoxins and picrosides, respectively. Hence, different plant tissue culture approaches have been employed for their conservation and sustainable utilization. The successes achieved till date in these approaches have been reviewed in the present article.

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The research facilities provided by the Director CSIR-IHBT are kindly acknowledged. ND thanks the University Grants Commission (UGC) for providing Junior Research Fellowship. ND and VP also acknowledge the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India. The CSIR-IHBT Communication number is 3967.

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Dhiman, N., Patial, V., Bhattacharya, A. (2016). In Vitro Approaches for Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Podophyllum hexandrum and Picrorhiza kurroa: Endangered Medicinal Herbs of Western Himalaya. In: Anis, M., Ahmad, N. (eds) Plant Tissue Culture: Propagation, Conservation and Crop Improvement. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1917-3_3

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