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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Improved silymarin content in elicited multiple shoot cultures of Silybum marianum L
Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, Volume 19, No. 1, Year 2013
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Silybum marianum L. extracts are being used as antihepatotoxic therapy for liver diseases. Silymarin is a polyphenolic flavonoid mixture isolated from milk thistle which is believed to be responsible for the plant's hepatoprotective action. Regeneration of Silybum marianum plants from shoot tip explants and assessment of their morphogenic potential, silymarin total concentration and its major constituents upon exposure to medium composition alteration and different elicitors' application was targeted. Different concentrations of NaCl, quercetin, gamma irradiation and dried fungal extracts were used to elicit silymarin production in the cultures. The chemical composition of silymarin and its total concentration was investigated through HPLC at all the experiment stages. Multiple shoots were recorded after 3 weeks of culture on MS medium containing various concentrations of BA and/or NAA. IAA was more effective than NAA and IBA in inducing robust roots in shoot cultures. The flowering plants recorded 20 % and 40 % of the total plants number in the multiplication and rooting stages respectively. The highest total silymarin concentration reached its peak with (10 Gy) gamma-irradiation to be 6. 598 % dry weight in the in vitro regenerated shoot tip explants. The in vitro grown flowers showed 1. 7 times more sylimarin productivity as compared to that of the wild grown congruent. © 2012 Prof. H.S. Srivastava Foundation for Science and Society.
Authors & Co-Authors
El Sherif, Fadia M.
Egypt, Ismailia
Faculty of Agriculture
Khattab, Salah E.
Egypt, Ismailia
Faculty of Agriculture
Ibrahim, Amany K.
Egypt, Ismailia
Faculty of Pharmacy
Ahmed, Safwat A.
Egypt, Ismailia
Faculty of Pharmacy
Statistics
Citations: 32
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s12298-012-0141-7
ISSN:
09715894
Study Approach
Quantitative