alginate/nicotiana

This paper reports an efficient protoplast culture technique, the "extra thin alginate film" technique. The development of this improved method of protoplast culture was an outcome of an assessment of the efficiency and shortcomings of various protoplast culture techniques. The efficiency of this

Scopolin-producing cells of Nicotiana tabacum were immobilized within Ca-alginate gel beads. Free cell suspensions accumulated scopolin within cytoplasmic compartments and cell disruption was necessary to recover scopolin. On the contrary, immobilized plant cells excreted considerable amounts of

Benzophenone and bisphenol A are environmental pollutions, which have been listed among "chemicals suspected of having endocrine disrupting effects" by the World Wildlife Fund, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the USA and the Japanese Environment Agency. The cultured cells

Extractive solvent addition was combined with immobilization cultures of Nicotiana tabacum cells to produce scopoletin. Using various solvents, the partition coefficients of scopoletin between the solvent and water phases and the solvent toxicity to the cell viability were investigated. The effect

Cytokinins play a decisive role in regulation of plastid development and differentiation, but their metabolism in plastids is not known. Metabolic studies using intact chloroplasts are prevented by their instability once they are isolated from leaf cells. Chloroplasts of Nicotiana tabacum L. cv.

Plant cells of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) were grown for several generations in suspension cultures. Cells were immobilized in continuous bioreactors in calcium alginate (Ca Alg) beads or in poly-L-lysine (PLL) encapsulated calcium alginatehydrogels. In each case, the cells were fed continuously

beta-Thujaplicin (hinokitiol) is a tropolone derivative present in the heartwood of cupressaceous plants and is used as a medicine, a food additive, and a preservative, and in cosmetics as hair tonic. The cultured plant cells of Nicotiana tabacum glycosylated beta-thujaplicin to two glucosides,

Improving plant resistance against systemic diseases remains a challenging research topic. In this study, we developed a dual-action pesticide-loaded hydrogel with the capacity to significantly induce plant resistance against tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) infection and promote plant growth. We produced

An index [kv: average isolation rate of viable protoplast (number/ml min)] was established to evaluate the optimal conditions for protoplast isolation from cultured plant cells. The optimal conditions for protoplasts isolation from Nicotiana tabacum BY2 cultured cells could be determined on the