Abstract
Plants of the genus Scutellaria (Family Lamiaceae) constitute one of the common components of Eastern as well as traditional American medicine. Skullcap is a North American perennial plant belonging to the genus Scutellaria. The genus is widespread in Northern Hemisphere represented by close to 400 species. Many species are rare, threatened, or endangered. Habitat destruction, urbanization, and poor seed set are the few reasons behind diminishing population of many skullcaps. Many skullcaps have showy, beautiful blooms with great potential as ornamental plants. Skullcap are used in alternative medicine as anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, emmenagogue, nervine, sedative and strong tonic. We have developed a germplasm collection at Fort Valley State University and the populations are maintained in the greenhouse and through micropropagation. We have made significant headway in the areas of micropropagation, transformation for desired gene transfer and hairy root induction, extraction and HPLC analysis of targeted flavonoids, and clinical role of select flavonoids using glioma cell lines.
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