Plant in vitro cultures represent an attractive and cost-effective alternative to classical
approaches to plant secondary metabolite (PSM) production (the “Plant Cell Factory” …

Secondary metabolites not only play vital role in plant defense against herbivory and other
interspecies defenses but also used by humans as medicines, flavorings, pharmaceuticals …

Metal pollution is an important issue worldwide, with various documented cases of metal
toxicity in mining areas, industries, coal power plants and agriculture sector. Heavy metal …

Plant secondary metabolites are known to be an important source of foods, fragrances,
pigment, drugs and so on. Extraction is one of the crucial steps for research and …

Plant cell factories constitute an alternative source of high added value phytochemicals such
as the anticancer drug taxol (generic name paclitaxel), biosynthesized in Taxus spp. The …

Paclitaxel, a tetracyclic diterpenoid compounds, was firstly isolated from the bark of the
Pacific yew trees. Currently, as a low toxicity, high efficiency, and broad-spectrum natural …

Cancer is a major killer disease all over the world and more than six million new cases are
reported every year. Nature is an attractive source of new therapeutic compounds, as a …

In the urgent search for more effective ways to treat cancer, new extraction methods of taxol
from endophytic fungus have demonstrated high potential in increasing the efficiency of …

The exponential spread of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
emphasizes the immediate need for effective antiviral drugs and vaccines that could control …

Endophytes, microorganisms that colonize internal tissues of all plant species, create a huge
biodiversity with yet unknown novel natural products, presumed to push forward the frontiers …