Before the commercialized vaccine was introduced, people mostly use traditional ways such as medicinal plants to battle infectious diseases. Plants that have antibiotic properties such as ginger, echinacea kill some pathogens and benefit the immune system. But using plants as…
Lichens have been used as foods, medicines, dyes, and perfumes since ancient times. Many pharmacologically active compounds have been isolated from lichens. However, lichens in nature are rare and seasonal, and harvesting as an industrial resource may lead to the…
Plant tissue culture is a technology widely used in fast propagation of cash plants. It requires strict aseptic techniques to ensure no contamination occurs. The principle of tissue culture is cell totipotent, in another word, every plant cell has the…