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

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...

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Main Authors:	E Dehghan, B Hosseini, H Naghdi Badi, F Shahriari Ahmadi
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	Institue of Medicinal Plants, ACECR 2010-09-01
Series:	Journal of Medicinal Plants
Subjects:	papaver species biotechnological methods conventional breeding morphinane alkaloids tissue culture metabolic engineering
Online Access:	http://jmp.ir/article-1-264-en.html
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