Understory growth of <i>Paris polyphylla</i> accumulates a reservoir of secondary metabolites of plants.

ABSTRACT: Paris polyphylla is an important traditional medicinal plant of the Himalayan region. It is extensively used for the production of natural steroidal saponins and flavonoids. Although seed dormancy of wild plants can be broken to be artificially maintained and regenerated through micropropagation in the laboratory, the success of secondary metabolite production in higher quantities and the synthesis of superior plant metabolites have been very limited. In this study, we present differential metabolic profiling of P. polyphylla plants maintained for 8 years in natural and greenhouse conditions. Untargeted profiling of the metabolites through ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS), followed by statistical analysis, identified sec

SUBMITTER: Yan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11518744 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature