Plant in vitro systems as sources of tropane alkaloids

Natural Products: Phytochemistry, Botany and Metabolism of Alkaloids, Phenolics and Terpenes

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 173-211

  Georgiev, Vasil ^a   Marchev, Andrey ^a   Berkov, Strahil ^b   Pavlov, Atanas ^a,c  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^b AGROBIOINSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FOOD TECHNOLOGIES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Artificial polyploidy; Bioreactor; Hairy roots; Hyoscyamine; Plant cell cultures; Scopolamine; Tropane alkaloids biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921864081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22144-6_6     Document Type: Chapter

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