Plants produce complex small molecules - natural products - that exhibit anticancer, antimalarial and antimicrobial activity. These molecules play a key role in human medicine. However, plants typically produce these compounds in low quantities, and harvesting plant natural products is frequently expensive, time-consuming and environmentally damaging. Plant cell culture provides a renewable, easily scalable source of plant material. In this chapter we discuss the successes and pitfalls associated with natural product production in plant cell cultures. © 2008 Birkhäuser Verlag AG.
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McCoy, E., & O’Connor, S. E. (2008). Natural products from plant cell cultures. Progress in Drug Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8117-2_9
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