Withanolide biosynthesis recruits both mevalonate and DOXP pathways of isoprenogenesis in Ashwagandha Withania somnifera L. (Dunal)

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1889-1897

  Chaurasiya, Narayan D ^a,b   Sangwan, Neelam S ^a   Sabir, Farzana ^a   Misra, Laxminarain ^a   Sangwan, Rajender S ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

13C NMR; Ashwagandha; Isoprenoids biosynthesis; Mevalonate and non mevalonate (DOXP); Withaferin A; Withania somnifera; Withanolides

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GLUCOSE; MEVALONIC ACID; TERPENE; WITHAFERIN A; WITHANOLIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLANT; WITHANIA;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CULTURE MEDIA; GLUCOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MEVALONIC ACID; PLANT SHOOTS; TERPENES; WITHANIA; WITHANOLIDES;

WITHANIA SOMNIFERA;

EID: 84866456071     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-012-1302-4     Document Type: Article

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