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Planta Med 1996; 62(3): 287-288
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-957884
Letter

© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Withanolide Composition and in vitro Culture of Italian Withania somnifera

G. Vitali1 , L. Conte2 , M. Nicoletti2
  • 1Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università “La Sapienza”, P. le A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
  • 2Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università “La Sapienza”, P. le A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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1995

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04 January 2007 (online)

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Abstract

From Italian plants of Withania somnifera six withanolides were isolated, whose structures allowed us to assign the Italian race of W. somnifera to the Israel chemotype III. In vitro cultures of Italian W. somnifera under different conditions were obtained, as well as infection by Agrobacterium rhizogenes. HPLC analysis of in vitro derived tissues showed low contents of withanolides.