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Biotechnological strategies for the sustainable production of diosgenin from Dioscorea spp.

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Diosgenin is a plant-derived secondary metabolite mainly present in the members of the plant family Dioscoreaceae. It is a pharmaceutically important compound because of its anti-cancerous, anti-diabetic, anticoagulant, anti-thrombosis, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, anti-ageing and other properties. Biotechnology provides an opportunity to genetically manipulate cells, tissues, organs or the whole organisms by propagating them in vitro in order to harvest the bioactive compounds. Diosgenin production from botanical sources is being improved by in vitro techniques which include elicitation, genetic transformations and bioconversions. Various techniques have been developed to obtain compounds for drug detection including separation from plants and other natural sources, molecular modelling, synthetic chemistry and combinatorial chemistry. Development in molecular markers determines genetic relationship, genetic linkage map construction, genetic diversity and identification. For rapid clonal propagation and ex situ conservation, the in vitro tools involving plant cell, tissue and organ culture have been well documented for plant-derived diosgenin production. The present review encompasses the wide application of the biotechnological techniques for diosgenin production via elucidating its biosynthetic pathway, in vitro production and mass propagation and elicitation. In addition, molecular marker-mediated diversity assessment of diosgenin containing plant species is also discussed. The review also presents the recent literature to explore the limitations of the relevant studies and future direction of research on production of diosgenin from Dioscorea spp.

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• Critical and updated assessment on sustainable production of diosgenin from Dioscorea spp.

• In vitro propagation of Dioscorea spp. and elicitation of diosgenin production.

• Diversity assessment of Dioscorea spp. using molecular markers.

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Nazir, R., Kumar, V., Gupta, S. et al. Biotechnological strategies for the sustainable production of diosgenin from Dioscorea spp.. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 105, 569–585 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-020-11055-3

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