Abstract
Catharanthus roseus is a kind of flowering plant used in conventional medicineto cure a variety of diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, skin disorders and cancer. Alkaloids are among the many substances present in the plant that shown pharmacological effect. Numerous alkaloids found in the plant, such as vincristine and vinblastine, used in chemotherapy to treat various cancers. Numerous studies on these substances have revealed their efficacy when treating illnesses like Hodgkin's lymphoma and pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia. C. roseus has developed as a model organism in order to study plant secondary metabolism and its control in recent years. It used to gain understanding of the genetic and metabolic mechanisms underlying the manufacture of alkaloids as well as other secondary metabolites found in plants.