What is it about?
Psyllium (Plantago ovata Forsk) is medicinally used mainly for its mucilage content. The natural mucilage polymers are cheap and biocompatible and represent an easy access to the stock of polysaccharides. These types of polymers are important in food formulation and studies in plant-water relations, medicinal purposes that is used to treat hypertension, high cholesterol level, diabetes, hemorrhoids and bladder problems [4], with wide range of applications such as thickening, binding, disintegrating, suspending, stabilizing and gelling agents
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Why is it important?
Plant cell culture has emerged as a potential source of secondary metabolites, which are used as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and food additives. The in vitro cell culture provides an efficient mean for the production of mucilage at the cellular level.
Perspectives
The evolving commercial importance of secondary metabolites has led to a great demand in the pharmaceutical industry in recent years. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this research as it unravels in future works will be the determination of how each of the plant growth-condition factors as well as in vitro culture manipulations contributes to a greater production of mucilage.
Prof. Ahmad Arzani
Isfahan University of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Experimental Paper. In vitro synthesis of mucilage in Plantago ovata Forsk affected by genotypes and culture media, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/hepo-2017-0005.
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