Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal,
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2014;808:25-39. doi: 10.1007/978-81-322-1774-9_3.
Approximately 80% of the world inhabitants depend on the medicinal plants in the form of traditional formulations for their primary health care system well as in the treatment of a number of diseases since the ancient time. Many commercially used drugs have come from the information of indigenous knowledge of plants and their folk uses. Linking of the indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants to modern research activities provides a new reliable approach, for the discovery of novel drugs much more effectively than with random collection. Increase in population and increasing demand of plant products along with illegal trade are causing depletion of medicinal plants and many are threatened in natural habitat. Plant tissue culture technique has proved potential alternative for the production of desirable bioactive components from plants, to produce the enough amounts of plant material that is needed and for the conservation of threatened species. Different plant tissue culture systems have been extensively studied to improve and enhance the production of plant chemicals in various medicinal plants.
大约 80%的世界居民依赖药用植物，以传统配方的形式作为他们的初级卫生保健系统，以及治疗许多疾病，自古以来就是如此。许多商业上使用的药物都来自于对植物的本土知识和民间用途的信息。将药用植物的本土知识与现代研究活动联系起来，为发现新型药物提供了一种新的可靠方法，比随机收集要有效得多。人口增长和对植物产品需求的增加，以及非法贸易，导致药用植物的枯竭，许多植物在自然栖息地受到威胁。植物组织培养技术已被证明是从植物中生产所需生物活性成分的潜在替代方法，以生产所需的大量植物材料，并保护受威胁的物种。不同的植物组织培养系统已经被广泛研究，以提高和增强各种药用植物中植物化学物质的生产。
