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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Growing plants......the Biotech way!!!

Producing pure ayurvedic compounds in a flask ........
Shatvari is a plant that is considered highly medicinal in ayurvedic texts. Its roots produce compounds called saponins which have the medicinal properties. But these are produced only after flowering. And the plant flowers only after 4years. So, nobody wants to grow this plant ....who is going to wait for 4years? So we took a different approach .We established the root callus of this plant in our tissue culture laboratory (we are the first one in the world to have done so, other attempts failed for years). We then made the callus friable and established individual cells in suspension cultures. These cells now grow in suspension and produce pure saponins. No need to grow the plants, no need to wait for 4years for flowering, no need to have a field, no fertilizers, no pesticides. All you need is a small room, a few cheap equipments and you can manufacture the medicinal compunds. Bonus?? You get pure, high value saponins, rather than crude root powder. Neat , isn't it?

1 Comments:

Blogger PaRaG said...

Its really nice work, first time in this field i heard or read somthing about ayurved. keep it up best of luck....

October 5, 2007 at 5:18 AM  

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