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Bio/Technology  5, 800 - 804 (1987)
doi:10.1038/nbt0887-800

New Routes to Plant Secondary Products

John D. Hamill1, Adrian J. Parr1, Michael J. C. Rhodes1, , Richard J. Robins1,  & Nicholas J. Walton1

  1Plant Biotechnology Group, AFRC Institute of Food Research, Norwich Laboratory, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UA, U.K.

  Corresponding authors.

For some years, there has been great interest in the exploitation of plant cell cultures to produce fine chemicals. With a few exceptions, progress in commercialization has been slow, largely due to the low and/or unstable productivity of many undifferentiated cultures. Recent developments leading to the production of rapidly growing, organized, 'hairy' root cultures following the genetic transformation of plants with Agrobacterium rhizogenes may revolutionize certain areas of plant cell biotechnology. We discuss the application of hairy root technology to the production of plant secondary metabolites.

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