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Astragalus membranaceus is one of the most widely used traditional medicinal herbs in China, but the time required to generate a useful product in the field production is long. The growth of adventitious root cultures was compared between cultures grown in solid, liquid, or a 5-L balloon-type bubble bioreactor. The maximum growth ratio (final dry weight/initial dry weight) was determined for adventitious roots grown in the bioreactor. Studies carried out to optimize biomass production of adventitious roots compared adventitious root growth from various inoculum root lengths, inoculum densities, and aeration volume in the bioreactors. The maximum growth ratio occurred in treatments with a 1.5-cm inoculum root length, with 30 g (fresh weight) of inoculum per bioreactor or with an aeration volume of 0.1 vvm (air volume/culture medium volume per min). The polysaccharide, saponin, and flavonoid content of roots from bioreactor-grown cultures were compared to roots from field-grown plants grown for 1 and 3 yr. Total polysaccharide content of adventitious roots in the bioreactor (30.0 mg g−1 dry weight (DW)) was higher than the roots of 1-yr-old (13.8 mg g−1 DW) and 3-yr-old (21.1 mg g−1 DW) plants in the field. Total saponin (3.4 mg g−1 DW) and flavonoid (6.4 mg g−1 DW) contents were nearly identical to 3-yr-old roots and higher than that of 1-yr-old roots under field cultivation.
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This research was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (30860176 and 30860036). We thank Professors Jules Janick and Paul Michael Hasegawa of Purdue University for the assistance with the manuscript.
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Wu, S.Q., Lian, M.L., Gao, R. et al. Bioreactor application on adventitious root culture of Astragalus membranaceus . In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Plant 47, 719–724 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11627-011-9376-1
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