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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 10.
Published in final edited form as: Biotechnol Adv. 2015 Aug 15;33(8):1582–1614. doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2015.08.001

Table 6.

Examples of hairy root cultures fromplants producing important pharmacologically active molecules developed from ROOTec bioactives Ltda.

Plant species; examples of bioactive
constituents in plants		 Appearance of the plant species (left) and
the hairy roots (right)
Atropa belladonna L. (deadly
nightshade); atropine		 graphic file with name emss-65118-t0027.jpg
Nicotiana glauca Graham (tree
tobacco); vitamin D3 derivative,
alkaloids		 graphic file with name emss-65118-t0028.jpg
Nicotiana tabacum L. (tobacco);
anabasine, nicotine, nor-nicotine		 graphic file with name emss-65118-t0029.jpg
Ophiorrhiza mungos L. (mongoose
plant); camptothecin		 graphic file with name emss-65118-t0030.jpg

Notes:

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