“…To date, several studies on CMCs have been reported, but only in a limited number of plant species, mainly medicinal ones, e.g., Taxus cuspidata , Ginkgo biloba , Solanum lycopersicon 22 , Panax ginseng 22 , 28 , Catharanthus roseus 29 , Tripterygium wilfordii 30 , Camptotheca acuminate 31 , Ocimum basilicum 32 , Fraxinus mandshurica 33 . However, no study has been presented on the establishment and cultivation of stem cell or stem-like cell suspension cultures derived from Calendula officinalis L. Establishment of stem cell cultures in small volumes or in bioreactors should ensure higher production of cells and secondary metabolites in comparison with the cultivation of dedifferentiated cells in suspension cultures.…”