Biotechnological approaches to the production of shikonins: A critical review with recent updates

Critical Reviews in Biotechnology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 327-340

  Malik, Sonia ^a,b   Bhushan, Shashi ^a   Sharma, Madhu ^a   Ahuja, Paramvir Singh ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alkannin; Boraginaceae; Cell culture; In vitro culture; Naphthoquinones; Natural products; Pigments; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; KETONES; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLITES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PIGMENTS;

ALKANNIN; BORAGINACEAE; IN-VITRO; NAPHTHOQUINONES; NATURAL PRODUCTS; SECONDARY METABOLITES;

CELL ENGINEERING;

ADSORBENT; SHIKONIN; NAPHTHOQUINONE; PLANT EXTRACT;

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; CARBON SOURCE; CELL CULTURE; CELL REGENERATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MARKET; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROPROPAGATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PH; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCALE UP; SHOOT; TISSUE CULTURE; BIOENGINEERING; BORAGINACEAE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

BIOENGINEERING; BORAGINACEAE; NAPHTHOQUINONES; PLANT EXTRACTS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84954568175     PISSN: 07388551     EISSN: 15497801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07388551.2014.961003     Document Type: Review

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