Biotechnology of Duboisia alkaloids.

New ways for medicinal plant improvement and for the production of plant drugs have opened up as the result of advances in plant biotechnology and increasing interest in plant-derived pharmaceuticals. This article highlights plant improvement of Duboisia and production of tropane alkaloids using modern techniques such as plant tissue and cell culture, root culture, radioimmunoassay in tropane alkaloid analysis, and molecular biology in the studies of tropane biosynthesis.