HPLC Investigation of the Inheritance of Major Opium Alkaloids1

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Inheritance of five major alkaloids, morphine, codeine, thebaine, narcotine and papaverine has been studied in interspecific cross, Papaver somniferum x P. serigerum. Heterotic increase in codeine and thebaine was found in different F1 plants while in some F2 plants the content of all these alkaloids except that of codeine exceeded the content of these alkaloids found in parental and F1 generations. The absence of narcotine was generally dominant over its presence.

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