Year: 2015
Pages: 70-120
Number: Volume 7, issue 2
Type: scientific article
Topic: Articles
Authors: Kuluev Bulat R., Vershinina Z.R., Knyazev A.V., Chemeris D.A., Baymiev An.Kh., Chumakov M.I.!, Baymiev Al.Kh, Chemeris A.V.
The review highlights the history of studying the phenomenon of hairy roots and biodiversity strains of Agrobacterium rhizogenes used to create these roots. Briefly discusses the features of the interaction of A. rhizogenes with plants and the process of hairy roots formation. The main emphasis in this review is given to the practical use of hairy roots as producers of the biologically active substances, including producing raw materials for further chemical synthesis. In recent years hairy roots became commercial application, so part of the review devoted to the description of a special bioreactors developed for the industrial cultivation and the development of the methods for long-term preservation of the hairy roots’ cultures. At the same time hairy roots remain one of the major models in molecular biology and physiology of plants, but their potential for fundamental research is not fully exploited. References amounted to more than 450 publications covering a 115-year period.
root, hairy roots, culture of hairy roots, Agrobacterium rhizogenes, genetical transformation, composite plants, primary metabolites, secondary metabolites, bioreactor