METHOD FOR MASS PRODUCTION OF WILD GINSENG ROOTS BY PLANT TISSUE CULTURE

摘要

Disclosed is a method for mass production of tissue-cultured wild ginseng roots by tissue culture. Unlike a conventional method of mass-producing wild tissue-cultured wild ginseng roots by tissue culture, including selection of a raw material, sterilization of the raw material, induction of callus formation, culture and mass propagation, the method of the present invention is characterized by selecting a wild ginseng raw material by DNA fingerprint analysis and directly inducing root differentiation from the raw material without the induction of callus formation. Because of exclusion of callus formation induction, the present invention does not employ harmful growth regulators, such as 2,4-D. In addition, the present method remarkably increases the content of pharmaceutically active components that are generally contained in low concentrations in tissue-cultured wild ginseng roots.