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Somatic Hybridization of Medicinal Plants in the Family Solanaceae

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Recent increase in the interest in secondary metabolite production has given new impetus to the use of cell genetic and molecular genetic approaches for metabolic engineering of medicinal plants. Although the exploitation of modern genetic technologies are still in their infancy, their potential has already been proved in the production of pharmaceutical compounds (Fett-Neto et al. 1992; Yun et al. 1992). Among the large variety of medicinal plants, the alkaloid-producing solanaceous species are particularly attractive candidates for cell/molecular genetic manipulations, primarily because tissue culture, including plant regeneration from protoplasts, has been optimized for many of these species. Therefore, it is not surprising that a great wealth of our knowledge on somatic hybridization and gene transformation derives from experiments with various medicinal plants of Solanaceae family.

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Lazar, G. (1994). Somatic Hybridization of Medicinal Plants in the Family Solanaceae. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Somatic Hybridization in Crop Improvement I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57945-5_23

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