Enhancement of ajmalicine production in Catharanthus roseus cell cultures with methyl jasmonate is dependent on timing and dosage of elicitation
- 1 October 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Biotechnology Letters
- Vol. 26 (20) , 1595-1599
- https://doi.org/10.1023/b:bile.0000045825.37395.94
Abstract
The optimum growth stage for enhancing ajmalicine production in Catharanthus roseuscultures with methyl jasmonate (MJ) was after 6 d growth. MJ added at 10 or 100 μm on day 6 gave a maximum ajmalicine production of 10.2 mg l−1, a 300% increase over that of non-elicited cultures.Keywords
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