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  • Biotechnology
  • Pharmacognosy

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  • Medicinal plants are crucial for therapies, but wild harvesting threatens biodiversity and product quality.
  • Cultivated biomass currently supplies only a fraction of herbal products.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the importance of developing medicinal plants into crops.
  • To demonstrate micropropagation's role in mass-producing therapeutic natural substances.
  • To review in vitro techniques for crop development in pharmaceuticals, phytomedicinals, and functional foods.

Main Methods:

  • Review of in vitro procedures for medicinal plant crop development.
  • Application of micropropagation for mass biomass production.
  • Use of bioassays for identifying elite phenotypes and high-yielding genotypes.

Main Results:

  • Micropropagation enables the production of uniform clones from heterozygous plants.
  • It facilitates the development of high-yielding genotypes for specific therapeutic compounds.
  • Techniques support pharmaceutical, phytomedicinal, and functional food crop production.

Conclusions:

  • Micropropagation is vital for sustainable sourcing of medicinal plant biomass.
  • It ensures quality and safety of therapeutic natural products.
  • This technology supports the production of small (STM) and large (LTM) therapeutic molecules, including prebiotics.