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Tissue Culture Response of Ornamental and Medicinal Aesculus Species—A Review

Species of the genus Aesculus are very attractive woody ornamentals. Their organs contain numerous health-promoting phytochemicals. The most valuable of them—aescin—is used in commercial preparations for the treatment of venous insufficiency. The industrial source of aescin is horse chestnut seeds b...

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Autores principales: Zdravković-Korać, Snežana, Milojević, Jelena, Belić, Maja, Ćalić, Dušica
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8839481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35161258
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11030277
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author Zdravković-Korać, Snežana
Milojević, Jelena
Belić, Maja
Ćalić, Dušica
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Ćalić, Dušica
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description Species of the genus Aesculus are very attractive woody ornamentals. Their organs contain numerous health-promoting phytochemicals. The most valuable of them—aescin—is used in commercial preparations for the treatment of venous insufficiency. The industrial source of aescin is horse chestnut seeds because the zygotic embryos are the main site of its accumulation. Horse chestnut somatic and zygotic embryos contain similar amount of aescin, hence somatic embryos could be exploited as an alternative source of aescin. Somatic embryogenesis, androgenesis and de novo shoot organogenesis were successfully achieved in several Aesculus species, as well as secondary somatic embryogenesis and shoot organogenesis, which enables mass production of embryos and shoots. In addition, an efficient method for cryopreservation of embryogenic tissue was established, assuring constant availability of the plant material. The developed methods are suitable for clonal propagation of elite specimens selected as the best aescin producers, the most attractive ornamentals or plants resistant to pests and diseases. These methods are also useful for molecular breeding purposes. Thus, in this review, the medicinal uses and a comprehensive survey of in vitro propagation methods established for Aesculus species, as well as the feasibility of in vitro production of aescin, are presented and discussed.
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spelling pubmed-88394812022-02-13 Tissue Culture Response of Ornamental and Medicinal Aesculus Species—A Review Zdravković-Korać, Snežana Milojević, Jelena Belić, Maja Ćalić, Dušica Plants (Basel) Review Species of the genus Aesculus are very attractive woody ornamentals. Their organs contain numerous health-promoting phytochemicals. The most valuable of them—aescin—is used in commercial preparations for the treatment of venous insufficiency. The industrial source of aescin is horse chestnut seeds because the zygotic embryos are the main site of its accumulation. Horse chestnut somatic and zygotic embryos contain similar amount of aescin, hence somatic embryos could be exploited as an alternative source of aescin. Somatic embryogenesis, androgenesis and de novo shoot organogenesis were successfully achieved in several Aesculus species, as well as secondary somatic embryogenesis and shoot organogenesis, which enables mass production of embryos and shoots. In addition, an efficient method for cryopreservation of embryogenic tissue was established, assuring constant availability of the plant material. The developed methods are suitable for clonal propagation of elite specimens selected as the best aescin producers, the most attractive ornamentals or plants resistant to pests and diseases. These methods are also useful for molecular breeding purposes. Thus, in this review, the medicinal uses and a comprehensive survey of in vitro propagation methods established for Aesculus species, as well as the feasibility of in vitro production of aescin, are presented and discussed. MDPI 2022-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8839481/ /pubmed/35161258 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11030277 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Milojević, Jelena
Belić, Maja
Ćalić, Dušica
Tissue Culture Response of Ornamental and Medicinal Aesculus Species—A Review
title Tissue Culture Response of Ornamental and Medicinal Aesculus Species—A Review
title_full Tissue Culture Response of Ornamental and Medicinal Aesculus Species—A Review
title_fullStr Tissue Culture Response of Ornamental and Medicinal Aesculus Species—A Review
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title_short Tissue Culture Response of Ornamental and Medicinal Aesculus Species—A Review
title_sort tissue culture response of ornamental and medicinal aesculus species—a review
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8839481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35161258
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11030277
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