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Solatium glaucophyllum Desf. (Duraznillo Blanco): In Vitro Culture and the Production of Steroidal Secondary Metabolites

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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants IV

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Solanum glaucophyllum Desf. is a calcinogenic plant growing wild mainly in South America, where its ingestion causes intoxication of grazing animals. Early work suggested that glycosides of various vitamin D3 sterols occur in minute concentrations in the plant leaves and are responsible for a calcinotic disease of cattle prevalent in Argentina and Brazil, with symptoms resembling vitamin-D intoxication. The vast literature on this topic describing chemical, toxicological, and physiological aspects has been extensively reviewed in the last decade (Wasserman and Nobel 1980; Morris 1982; Boland 1986; Weissenberg 1989). A few communications reporting the occurrence of small amounts of other steroids such as β- sitosterol, diosgenin and solasodine, and also of phenolic derivatives (vide infra), have already been summarized (Weissenberg 1989). Since this chapter is concerned with the in vitro production of metabolites in S. glaucophyllum, the naturally occurring steroidal derivatives which have been found to occur also in vitro will be treated preferentially in the following survey.

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  3. New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

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Weissenberg, M., Levy, A., Wasserman, R.H. (1993). Solatium glaucophyllum Desf. (Duraznillo Blanco): In Vitro Culture and the Production of Steroidal Secondary Metabolites. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants IV. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77004-3_24

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