Patent ID: 7005298

Claim:
A method for the in vitro micropropagation and phytofortification of a phytopharmaceutical plant comprising: a) culturing a sterile explant of said phytopharmaceutical plant on an induction medium comprising at least one plant growth regulator having cytokinin activity, to form regenerated tissue; b) transferring said regenerated tissue to a first basal medium lacking said plant growth regulator having cytokinin activity, and culturing to form plantlets; and c) subculturing said plantlets onto a second basal medium supplemented with one, or more than one additive of interest at an amount from about 50 to about 200 mg/L, said additive of interest selected from the group consisting of a vitamin, boron, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, lithium, iodine, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, silicon, tin, vanadium and zinc, to allow uptake and accumulation of said one, or more than one additive of interest in a bio-available form in said plantlet thereby producing said phytopharmaceutical plant that is phytofortified.