1Department of Botany, Government Girls Degree College, Kharkhauda, Meerut (U.P.)
2Department of Molecular Biology, Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125004 (Haryana)
3Advance Center for Computational and Applied Biotechnology, Uttarakhand Council for Biotechnology, Dehradun, 248007 (Uttarakhand)
4Nanobiosencre Laboratory, College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar-263145 (Uttarakhand)
5Department of Agriculture Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, SVP University of Agriculture & Technology, Modipuram, Meerut (U.P.)
6 Department of Botany, Dayalbagh University, Agra (U.P.)
*Corresponding Author Email: baliyan.upendra@gmail.com
Online published on 10 April, 2019.
Secondary metabolites have great application such as nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals and additives. A substantial amount of secondary metabolites can be produced by hairy root cultures. There are a list of novel compounds produced by hairy root cultures of different plants such as Agroastrolagoside I, Vulgaxanthin III, IV, 1, 8-DiO-methylchrysophanol, Indole alkaloids: anthraserpine, N-methyl pyrrolidinylcuscohygrine, 5-Hydroxy-and 6-hydroxytetrahydronorharman, 12-hydroxyajmaline two anthraquinones etc. Various biotechnological approaches can be used to improve the secondary metabolites production by hairy root cultures such as selection of efficient producing hairy root clones, optimization and selection of suitable culture media, use of plant growth regulators with elicitors.
