Research Prospect on Hairy Root Culture of Medicinal Herbs
As the wild medicinal herbs are drying up and the quality of cultured herbs is unsteady. During the past several decades, people have paid more and more attention to researching Ri plasmid and its hairy culture system, because hairy roots can produce a lot of important secondary metabolites, and it will become an effective approach for sustainable development of medicinal resource plant. This review deals with recent development of hairy root culture for secondary metabolite and points out the prospect on hairy root cultures of medicinal herbs.