hairy root


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a phase of crown gall (especially in apples) during which there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots

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Upregulation of ginsenoside and gene expression related to triterpene biosynthesis in ginseng hairy root cultures elicited by methyl jasmonate.
Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated Hairy root Formation in Some Rubia tinctorum L.
Zhong, "A new sesquiterpene from hairy root culture of Artemisia annua" Chinese Chemical Letters, vol.
They cover plant biotechnology and medicine; natural resource management; micropropagation; in vitro secondary metabolite production; harnessing the potential of hairy root cultures and plant-microbe interactions; metabolomics and metabolic engineering; interfacing biotechnology and bioinformatics; the molecular characterization of medicinal plants; molecular farming; and leads from chemistry, nanotechnology, and pharmacology for future biotechnological interventions.
"Hairy root," an infectious plant disease caused by the soil bacteria Agrobacterium rhizogenes, is at the core of a promising new technique that could one day lead to "biofactories" that produce medicines derived from rare plants in huge quantities at a low cost.
So about 2 years ago, Triplett began studies of whether hairy root cultures from cotton could produce it abundantly.
LEEKS harbour soil in the heart of the leek and the best method of cleaning is to keep a very slight piece of the hairy root end on and make a cut through the middle about 4cm from the base.
The research group has hairy root cultures for several different species of the medicinal herbs being studied.
In contrast, Agrobacterium rhizogenes, the causative organism of hairy root disease (for review, see Nilsson and Olsson, 1997), produces large numbers of transgenic hairy roots in soybean (White et al., 1985) and is cultivar independent (Owens and Cress, 1985).