Growth and rosmarinic acid production in cell suspension cultures of Salvia officinalis L.

Rosmarinic acid (RA) is a natural antioxidant produced by cell suspension cultures of sage (Salvia officinalis L.). The growth and production of RA by these cells can be modified by the type of culture medium.

Radiorestoration by 3 cytokinins contained in yeast RNAs and extracts, of scorzonera tumor tissues exposed to cobalt-60 gamma rays.

The 3 natural cytokinins contained both in the extracts and RNA of yeast and the tumor tissues cultivated in vitro, elicit radiorestorative properties from the crown-gall tissues of Scorsonera submitted to Co60 gamma-rays. However the cytokinins produce no stimulating effect whatsoever on the non irradiated tissues that are nontheless highly stimulated by yeast extract and their RNA.

[Radio-restoration by yeast s-RNA and its nucleotides of plant tissues cultured in vitro. Restorative activity of yeast s-RNA and a mixture of its nucleotides on the growth of Sorconera crown-gall tissue cultures].

Gamma RNA extracts from yeast restore the growth of Scorsonere Crown gall tissues which were subjected to gamma radiation from sigma cobalt 60. A mixture of nucleotides obtained from enzymatic hydrolysis of s-RNA by a ribonuclease T1 has the same stimulatory effect.

[Radiobiological studies on the behavior of normal and tumorous plant tissues cultivated in vitro].

Vegetable tumoral tissue are more radiosensitive than the homologous normal tissue. Tumoral tissue are more stimulated by yeast extract and yeast s-ARN than normal tissue. Yeast extracts and s-RNA extracts from yeast also restore more the growth of tumorous tissue than normal tissue, which were subjected to gamma radiation from 60Co.