duboisia/scopolamine

Hairy root cultures were obtained from hybrid clones of Duboisia myoporoides x D. leichhardtii following transformation by Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain A4. Shoots spontaneously regenerating from the hairy root cultures were rooted and transferred to soil. The plants displayed typical

Hyoscyamine is epoxidized to scopolamine via 6beta-hydroxyhyoscyamine in several solanaceous plants. 6,7-Dehydrohyoscyamine has been proposed to be an intermediate in the conversion of 6beta-hydroxyhyoscyamine to scopolamine on the basis of the observation that this unsaturated alkaloid is converted

The winter cherry bug colonizes the Duboisia leichhardtii tree, which is a rich source of scopolamine. It consumes the tropane alkaloids atropine and scopolamine. Quantitative analysis revealed that the ratio of scopolamine to atropine in the winter cherry bug (0.46) was far from that found in the

Scopolamine is used in the pharmaceutical industry as a precursor in the organic synthesis of different classes of important active substances and is extracted in large scale from field grown Duboisia plants. Previous research revealed that plant growth as well as production of scopolamine and its

Tropane alkaloids (TAs), especially hyoscyamine and scopolamine, are important precursors for anticholinergic and antispasmodic drugs. Hyoscyamine and scopolamine are currently obtained at commercial scale from hybrid crosses of Duboisia myoporoides × Duboisia leichhardtii plants. In this study, we

Scopolamine is a pharmaceutically important tropane alkaloid which is used therapeutically in the form of an anesthetic and antispasmodic drug. The present study demonstrates enhanced scopolamine production from transgenic hairy root clones of Duboisia leichhardtii wherein the expression of

The alkaloid composition of regenerated plants from DUBOISIA MYOPOROIDES R. Br. (Solanaceae) callus was determined at various stages of development. Anabasine, nornicotine, scopolamine and hyoscyamine, which are main alkaloids in leaves of the mother plant, were analysed. The main alkaloids were not

The addition of putrescine, a precursor of tropane alkaloids, to the culture medium increased scopolamine production of DUBOISIA MYOPOROIDES R. Br. (Solanaceae) roots (RB-1), whereas, other precursors (ornithine, arginine, and tropine) increased the content of scopolamine only slightly or not at

Co-culture conditions for Duboisia myoporoides-D. leichhardtii hybrid hairy root induction were investigated using leaf explants and Agrobacterium rhizogenes ATCC 15834. The bacteria density and duration of co-culture greatly affected the induction rate; the highest rate of 50% was obtained when the

The production of scopolamine-rich calli was investigated by the quantification of tropane alkaloids in a gas chromatograph equipped with a flame thermoionic detector (FTD). Stem and leaf segments from a selected strain, M-II-8-6, a hybrid between Duboisia myoporoides R. Br. and D. leichhardtii F.

Calluses were derived from explants of aerial parts of a Duboisia leichhardtii F. Muell. plant. After 3 months of culture we detected small amounts of hyoscyamine and scopolamine in the unorganized calluses, but the amounts decreased until they were undetectable with successive subculture. When

Duboisia samples were analyzed for scopolamine and hyoscyamine using GLC, by a slope ratio method, and by methods employing homatropine, tetraphenylethylene, and phenylacetyltropine as internal standards. Limits of precision were determined by the inverse prediction method. Phenylacetyltropine was

Duboisia species, which belong to the family of Solanaceae, are commercially cultivated in large scale, as they are main source of the pharmaceutically-used active compound scopolamine. In this study, 1H NMR-based metabolite profiling linking primary with secondary metabolism and additional

This work demonstrates the presence of hyoscyamine and scopolamine at different stages of shoot regeneration from non-organogenic and organogenic calli. The 11-week-old non-organogenic calli contained 0.41+/-0.03 and 0.23+/-0.02 microg g(-1) dry wt hyoscyamine and scopolamine respectively. However,

Putrescine:SAM N-methyltransferase (PMT) catalyses the N-methylation of the diamine putrescine to form N-methylputrescine, the first specific precursor of both tropane and pyridine-type alkaloids, which are present together in the roots of Duboisia plants. The pmt gene of Nicotiana tabacum was