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ReviewFrontiers in plant science2017

Biorhizome: A Biosynthetic Platform for Colchicine Biomanufacturing.

Ganapathy Sivakumar, Kamran Alba, Gregory C Phillips

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Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Harnessing endophytes and Multi-Omics for sustainable Colchicine biosynthesis.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026
    Review
  2. Review
  3. Methods for Chromosome Doubling.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
    Review
  4. Mitotic Poisons in Research and Medicine.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
    Review
  5. Journal of genetics · 2020
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ganapathy SivakumarDepartment of Engineering Technology, College of Technology, University of Houston, HoustonTX, United States.
Kamran AlbaDepartment of Engineering Technology, College of Technology, University of Houston, HoustonTX, United States.
Gregory C PhillipsCollege of Agriculture and Technology, Arkansas State University, JonesboroAR, United States.
University of Houston · USArkansas State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Colchicine is one of the oldest plant-based medicines used to treat gout and one of the most important alkaloid-based antimitotic drugs with anticancer potential, which is commercially extracted from

Indexed as

anticancerantigoutbioprocessGloriosa superbatranscriptome

Identifiers

PMID28713407
PMCPMC5491623
OpenAlexW2730859264

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Registered trials

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