Hairy roots as a source for production of valuable pharmaceutical materials

ABSTRACT

The plants have important role in our daily diet life. Their food value has been studied for many years. They are usually used as medicinal plants to improve national health in relation to nutrition or sanitation. Today, these metabolites extract from wild or cultivated medicinal plants. Production of secondary metabolites by traditional methods, depend on their species, require to months or years time. Furthermore, content of production affected by different factors such as climate changes or pathogens. Tissue culture of medicinal plants has been introduced as a source for production of secondary metabolites. Recently, hairy roots culture has also been a stable source of metabolite production. The hairy roots, induced by inoculation of explants with Agrobacterium rhizogenez, often growth as fast as or faster than plant cell cultures and have attractive properties for secondary metabolite production compare to related plants