Journal article

Publication year: 1979

Pages: 354-359

Journal: Planta Medica: Journal of Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research

Volume number: 35

Issue number: 4

ISSN: 0032-0943

eISSN: 1439-0221

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1097229

Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag

Abstract: 
Comparative investigations on alkaloid content of leaves and suspension cultures (fermenter batch cultures) of haploid and diploid D. innoxia Mill. indicated a higher content of tropane alkaloids in the leaves of diploid plants than in haploids, but approximately the same content in suspension cultures of both ploidy levels. In both systems and in all strains tested, scopolamine was the major alkaloid, however total alkaloid content in cell suspensions was far below that detected in leaves of the same strains. No correlation was found in the quantitative ratio of scopolamine and hyoscyamin between leaves and fermenter cultures of cell suspensions of the same strain and between various strains. Cultured suspensions excrete considerable amounts of scopolamine and hyoscyamin into the culture medium. Apparently the synthesis of the major tropan alkaloids is not restricted to an organogenetic status in haploid and diploid D. innoxia material.

Harvard Citation style: KIBLER, R. and NEUMANN, K. (1979) ALKALOID CONTENT IN HAPLOID AND DIPLOID LEAVES AND CELL-SUSPENSIONS OF DATURA INNOXIA, Planta Medica: Journal of Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research, 35(4), pp. 354-359. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1097229

APA Citation style: KIBLER, R., & NEUMANN, K. (1979). ALKALOID CONTENT IN HAPLOID AND DIPLOID LEAVES AND CELL-SUSPENSIONS OF DATURA INNOXIA. Planta Medica: Journal of Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research. 35(4), 354-359. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1097229