Shoot Organogenesis, Genetic Stability, and Secondary Metabolite Production of Micropropagated Digitalis purpurea

Digitalis purpurea L. is a cardenolide-producing medicinal and ornamental plant. Cardenolides, like digoxin, are commonly used to treat congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia, and atrial fibrillation. More recently, its cytotoxic activity on several

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Shoot Organogenesis, Genetic Stability, and Secondary Metabolite Production of Micropropagated Digitalis purpurea Elizabeth Kairuz, Naivy Pérez-Alonso, Geert Angenon, Elio Jiménez, and Borys Chong-Pérez

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Digitalis purpurea L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phytochemistry and Medicinal Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In Vitro Culture of Digitalis purpurea and Secondary Metabolite Production . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Indirect Organogenesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 Direct Organogenesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Genetic Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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E. Kairuz Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas (UCLV), Santa Clara, Cuba Instituto de Biotecnología de las Plantas (IBP), Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba Laboratory of Plant Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium e-mail: [email protected] N. Pérez-Alonso Instituto de Biotecnología de las Plantas (IBP), Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba e-mail: [email protected] G. Angenon Laboratory of Plant Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium e-mail: [email protected] E. Jiménez Florida Crystals Corp, Belle Glade, FL, USA e-mail: [email protected] B. Chong-Pérez (*) Sociedad de Investigación y Servicios BioTECNOS Ltda, San Javier, Chile e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 K. G. Ramawat et al. (eds.), Plant Cell and Tissue Differentiation and Secondary Metabolites, Reference Series in Phytochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30185-9_16

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6 Biotechnological Approaches for Biomass and Cardenolide Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 7 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Abstract

Digitalis purpurea L. is a cardenolide-producing medicinal and ornamental plant. Cardenolides, like digoxin, are commonly used to treat congestive h