Application of Conventional and New Biotechnological Approaches for Improving of Morphinane Alkaloids Production

نویسندگان
Hosseini, B ID 1
Shahriari Ahmadi, F ID 2
Dehghan, E ID 3
Naghdi Badi, H ID 4

1 Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University

2 Department of Biotechnology and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

3 Department of Biotechnology and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

4 Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture & Research (ACECR)

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چکیده

More than 12,000 alkaloids are known in plants, mostly used as medicine with a world market value of about 4 billion US$. Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, is the most important economic source of morphinane alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, thebaine, narcotine and papaverine that are exploited by the pharmaceutical industry as analgesics, ...

کلیدواژه‌ها
<, i>, Papaver<, /i>, species, Biotechnological methods, Conventional breeding, Morphinane Alkaloids, Tissue culture, Metabolic engineering