A procedure for producing somatic embryos enriched with dibenzyl trisulfide (DTS) using a hormone-dependent culture system is reported for Petiveria alliacea L. (Guinea hen weed). Leaf explants were cultured on a Murashige and Skoog medium supplemented with a range of naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) concentrations and a fixed concentration of benzyladenine (BAP) at 11.0 μM and sucrose or glucose at 30 g l−1. Leaf explants cultured on all media types started to form callus at the cut surfaces of the discs 10–14 d after initiation. The type of sugar used influenced average fresh weight, the propensity to form roots, as well as the embryogenic response. The highest mean fresh weight (337.7±26.18 mg) and mean root number (23.7±1.69) was produced on media enriched with sucrose and supplemented with 53.7 μM NAA and 11.0 μM BAP. An ethanol extract of rhizogenic/embryogenic callus or somatic embryos was subjected to high-performance liquid chromatography analysis, which revealed the presence of DTS in both extracts. UV spectral analysis and the use of standard quantitation procedures showed that the quantity of DTS in the somatic embryo extract, at 0.16% (w/v), was approximately 30-fold higher than in rhizogenic/embryogenic callus (0.0055% w/v) of similar fresh weight. These results indicate that it is possible to biosynthesize approximately 6 mg of natural DTS from 3,808 mg of fresh somatic embryos within 10 wk from less than three leaf explants.
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28 May 2008
Biosynthesis of Dibenzyl Trisulfide (DTS) from somatic embryos and rhizogenous/embryogenic callus derived from Guinea hen weed (Petiveria alliacea L.) leaf explants
S. A. Webster,
S. A. Mitchell,
W. A. Gallimore,
L. A D. Williams,
M. H. Ahmad
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In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant
Vol. 44 • No. 2
March 2008
Vol. 44 • No. 2
March 2008
Dibenzyl trisulfide
Guinea hen weed
HPLC
Molecular farming
Petiveria alliacea L
somatic embryogenesis
UV-spectral analysis