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Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz: in vitro biotechnological interventions and perspectives

Journal

APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 107, Issue 19, Pages 5855-5871

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-023-12695-x

Keywords

Fire flame bush; Woodfordin; Pharmacological studies; Biotechnological cutting-edge tools; Synthetic seeds; Metabolic engineering

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Woodfordia fruticosa is a medicinal shrub known for its various pharmacological properties. Due to its rich phyto-constituents, the plant is facing the risk of endangerment. This review provides a concise summary of the plant's constituents and biological activities, while addressing the gaps and potential areas of scientific innovation.
Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz is a woody medicinal shrub (Lythraceae) commonly known as the fire flame bush. W. fruticosa plant parts either alone or whole plant have a long history of recommended use in the Indian medicine systems of Ayurveda, Unani, and Siddha (AUS). This plant is prominently known for its pharmacological properties, viz., antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-peptic ulcer, hepatoprotective, immunomodulatory, antitumor, cardioprotective, analgesic, and wound healing activities. Its important phyto-constituents, woodfordin C, woodfordin I, oenothein B, and isoschimacoalin-A, exhibit in vitro or in vivo physiological activities beneficial to human health. As the plant is a rich storehouse of phyto-constituents, it is indiscriminately used in its wild habitats. Moreover, due to very poor seed viability and difficult-to-root qualities, it is placed under IUCN list of endangered plant species. For W. fruticosa, biomass production or to its conservation by in vitro regeneration is the best feasible alternative. Till date, only few important in vitro regeneration methods are reported in W. fruticosa. ISSR molecular markers based clonal fidelity and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation has been demonstrated, indicating that W. fruticosa is amenable to genetic manipulation and genome editing studies. This review presents concise summary of updated reports on W. fruticosa phyto-constituents and their biological activities, while a critical appraisal of biotechnological interventions, shortcomings, and factors influencing such potential areas success was presented. The unexplored gaps addressed here are relevant for W. fruticosa scientific innovations yet to come. In this paper, for the first time, we have presented a simple and reproducible protocol for synthetic seed production in W. fruticosa.

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