Establishment of a sanguinarine-producing cell suspension culture of Argemone mexicana L (Papaveraceae): induction of alkaloid accumulation.

Methods Mol Biol

Unidad de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de Plantas, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México.

Published: September 2012

A protocol for the induction of a cell suspension culture of Argemone mexicana is described. This suspension has been kept for over 3 years producing sanguinarine, a benzophenanthridine-type alkaloid. Sanguinarine levels can be increased by exposing these cultures to yeast or fungal elicitation.

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