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Pergularia tomentosa in Vitro Culture and the Production of Cardenolides and Other Secondary Metabolites

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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants XII

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 51))

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Pergularia tomentosa L. (Daemia cordata Forssk, R. Br. ex Schult) Asclepiadaceae, known locally as “Ghalaka” (Ibn El Bitar 1809; Migahid 1989), is a plant indigenous to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Abyssinia, North Africa, Iran, Afghanistan, West Pakistan, northern and central Sudan (Engler and Prantl 1891; Maire 1933; Migahid 1989). The plant is one of the abundant plants in Saudi Arabia, where it is found on rocky parts of deserts in various regions.

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Elhag, H.M., El-Olemy, M.M., Al-Said, M.S. (2002). Pergularia tomentosa in Vitro Culture and the Production of Cardenolides and Other Secondary Metabolites. In: Nagata, T., Ebizuka, Y. (eds) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants XII. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08616-2_10

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