Bringing medicinal plants into cultivation: Opportunities and challenges for biotechnology

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 180-185

  Canter, Peter H ^a   Thomas, Howard ^b   Ernst, Edzard ^a  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CULTIVATION; GENES; MEDICINE; METABOLITES; TISSUE CULTURE; TOXIC MATERIALS;

GENETIC DIVERSITY; HABITAT DESTRUCTION; HERBAL MEDICINES; MISIDENTIFICATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALKALOID; ANTIOXIDANT; ARTEMISININ; CANNABINOID; CANNABIS; FLAVONOID; FLAVONOID GLYCOSIDE; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; HERBICIDE; KAVA; LACTONE; MOLECULAR MARKER; PLANT DNA; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT TOXIN; PROLINE; SCOPOLAMINE; TANNIN; TERPENE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

AGRONOMIC TRAIT; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA URSI; ARTEMISIA; ASPEN; ATROPA; ATROPA BELLADONNA; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREEDING METHOD; CLOVER; CONTAMINATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; DANDELION; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTICATION; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG POTENCY; ECHINACEA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; GINKGO BILOBA; GINSENG; GLYCYRRHIZA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HARVEST; HERBAL MEDICINE; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; HYOSCYAMUS; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; LASER; MEDICAGO; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENTHA; MENTHA PIPERITA; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM; PATENT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GROWTH; POLLINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RHIZOBIUM RHIZOGENES; RICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLANUM NIGRUM; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STRATIFICATION; TAXUS; THALICTRUM; TISSUE CULTURE; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD SPECIES;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

AGRONOMY; BIODIVERSITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MEDICINE; METABOLISM; PLANTS; TISSUE CULTURE;

EID: 15044340701     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2005.02.002     Document Type: Review

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