Effects of Water Availability in the Soil on Tropane Alkaloid Production in Cultivated Datura stramonium.

ABSTRACT: different Solanaceae and Erythroxylaceae species produce tropane alkaloids. These alkaloids are the starting material in the production of different pharmaceuticals. The commercial demand for tropane alkaloids is covered by extracting them from cultivated plants. Datura stramonium is cultivated under greenhouse conditions as a source of tropane alkaloids. Here we investigate the effect of different levels of water availability in the soil on the production of tropane alkaloids by D. stramonium. We tested four irrigation levels on the accumulation of tropane alkaloids. We analyzed the profile of tropane alkaloids using an untargeted liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry method. Using a combination of informatics and manual interpretation of mass spectra, we generated several structure hyp

SUBMITTER: Moreno-Pedraza A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6680536 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature