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Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R. Brown: Micropropagation, In Vitro Culture and Production in Direction of Pharmaceutically Used Root Biomass

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Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R. Brown (synonyms: Sophora tinctoria L., Polydaria tinctoria Michaux Willd., commonly known as rattle bush, horsefly weed, indigo weed, yellow indigo, or yellow clover broom) and other members of the genus Baptisia were traditional medicinal plants for the American natives (Hussey 1974; Millspaugh 1887). Leaves of B. tinctoria were also used as a plant-derived dye (Gr. bapto, Lat. tingere: dye). It is a member of the family of Fabaceae (Leguminosae) and forms bushy shrubs up to 1 m high with woody perennial rhizomes and roots and annual aboveground parts (Fig. 1). The round stems are usually erect, often widely branched, glabrous, occasionally slightly pubescent and yellowish green. The subsessile leaves are terminately compound, with subsessile cuneate, obovate leaflets of 1 to 1.5 cm length, and are bluish green in color.

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Mevenkamp, G., Lieberei, R., Harnischfeger, G. (1994). Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R. Brown: Micropropagation, In Vitro Culture and Production in Direction of Pharmaceutically Used Root Biomass. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants VII. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-30369-6_3

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