Overview
Plant tissue culture is a laboratory technique in which plant cells, tissues, or organs are grown in sterile, controlled conditions on nutrient media to produce new plants or plant products. Research published in Tissue Repair and Regeneration has examined this technique from multiple perspectives, including investigations into callus culture systems—undifferentiated cell masses that serve as starting material for regeneration. Published studies have explored factors affecting cell growth in plant stem cell callus cultures and methods to enhance the production of valuable secondary metabolites, specifically alkaloids, from cell culture systems of Catharanthus roseus. These investigations have examined the combined effects of nutrient salt compositions, sucrose concentrations, and plant growth regulators on optimizing culture productivity. This research area matters because plant tissue culture provides a controlled platform for producing pharmaceutically important compounds, conserving rare plant species, and studying fundamental processes of cellular differentiation and regeneration. The technique offers advantages over traditional agriculture by enabling year-round production independent of environmental conditions and potentially increasing yields of valuable plant-derived substances used in medicine and industry.
Research published in this journal
2 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
Enhanced Alkaloid Production from Cell Culture System of Catharanthus roseus in Combined Effect of Nutrient Salts, Sucrose and Plant Growth Regulators
How this research is being cited
The 2 articles above have been cited 48 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2026 · Frontiers in Plant Science
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2026 · Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC)
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Saptak Sarkar et al. · 2025 · South African Journal of Botany
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2025 · South African Journal of Botany
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2025 · Multidisciplinary Science Journal
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J. G. Patil et al. · 2024 · Discover Plants
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Siddharth Goswami et al. · 2024 · Pharmacological Research - Modern Chinese Medicine
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2024 · Pharmacological Research - Modern Chinese Medicine
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