Predominance of the serpentine route in monoterpenoid indole alkaloid pathway of catharanthus roseus

Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 97-109

  Singh, Digvijay ^a,b   Rai, Sanjay Kumar ^a,b   Pandey Rai, Shashi ^a,b   Srivastava, Suchi ^a,b   Mishra, Raghvendra Kumar ^a,b   Sharma, Sri Kant ^c   Kumar, Sushil ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Regional Research Laboratory   (India)

Author keywords

Catharanthine and vindoline biosynthetic routes; Catharanthus roseus; Medicinal alkaloids of Catharanthus roseus; Organ wise alkaloid eompartmentation; Serpentine; Serpentine route predominance; Terpenoid indole alkaloids

Indexed keywords

AJMALICINE; CATHARANTHINE; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; CORRELATION STUDIES; END-PRODUCTS; MONOTERPENOID INDOLE ALKALOIDS; ORGAN-WISE ALKALOID EOMPARTMENTATION; RP-HPLC; STEM BARK; STEMWOODS; TERPENOID INDOLE ALKALOIDS; VINBLASTINE; VINDOLINE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; FORESTRY; LIPIDS; SILICATE MINERALS;

SERPENTINE;

EID: 77955936130     PISSN: 03700046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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