Title:	Using micropropagation to develop medicinal plants into crops.
Authors:	MORAES, R. M. CERDEIRA, A. L. LOURENÇO, M. V.
Affiliation:	RITA MARIA MORAES, Santa Martha Agro; ANTONIO LUIZ CERDEIRA, CNPMA; MIRIAM VERGINIA LOURENÇO, Santa Martha Agro.
Date Issued:	2021
Citation:	Molecules, v. 26, n. 6, article 1752, 2021.
Pages:	p. 1-13.
Description:	Abstract: Medicinal plants are still the major source of therapies for several illnesses and only part of the herbal products originates from cultivated biomass. Wild harvests represent the major supply for therapies, and such practices threaten species diversity as well as the quality and safety of the final products. This work intends to show the relevance of developing medicinal plants into crops and the use of micropropagation as technique to mass produce high-demand biomass, thus solving the supply issues of therapeutic natural substances. Herein, the review includes examples of in vitro procedures and their role in the crop development of pharmaceuticals, phytomedicinals, and functional foods. Additionally, it describes the production of high-yielding genotypes, uniform clones from highly heterozygous plants, and the identification of elite phenotypes using bioassays as a selection tool. Finally, we explore the significance of micropropagation techniques for the following: a) pharmaceutical crops for production of small therapeutic molecules (STM), b) phytomedicinal crops for production of standardized therapeutic natural products, and c) the micropropagation of plants for the production of large therapeutic molecules (LTM) including fructooligosaccharides classified as prebiotic and functional food crops.
Thesagro:	Planta Medicinal Micropropagação Cultura In Vitro
NAL Thesaurus:	Medicinal plants In vitro culture
Keywords:	In vitro propagation Medicinal crops Phytomedicines
ISSN:	1420-3049
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26061752
Type of Material:	Artigo de periódico
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em periódico indexado (CNPMA)