Cistanche deserticols Ma, family compositae, is a famous Chinese traditional drug, in which phenylethanoid glycosides (PeG) were its main bioactive components. Because of the poor natural resources, the feasibility of PeG production by cell cultures of C. deserticols was demonstrated in this paper, and the work on the regulation of phenylethanoid glycosides biosynthesis in cell suspension culture of C. deserticols were investigated, and the induction of hairy roots of them was originally studied.
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