Primary and Secondary Metabolism of Plants and Cell Cultures III: Proceedings of the workshop held in Leiden, The Netherlands, 4–7 April 1993

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Ajmalicine production by cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus : from shake flask to bioreactor....Pages 85-91
Production of steroidal alkaloids by hairy roots of Solanum aviculare and the effect of gibberellic acid....Pages 93-102
Cyclodextrins as a useful tool for bioconversions in plant cell biotechnology....Pages 103-113
Embryogenesis of photoautotrophic cell cultures of Daucus carota L....Pages 115-122
Semicontinuous cultivation of photoautotrophic cell suspension cultures in a 20 1 airlift-reactor....Pages 123-134
Studies on the relationship between ploidy level, morphology, the concentration of some phytohormones and the nicotine concentration of haploid and doubled haploid tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum L.) and NICA plants....Pages 135-141
Influence of exogenous hormones on the growth and secondary metabolite formation in transformed root cultures....Pages 143-151
Molecular cloning and expression of key enzymes for biosynthesis of cysteine and related secondary non-protein amino acids....Pages 153-158
Thiophene biosynthesis in Tagetes roots: molecular versus metabolic regulation....Pages 159-165
Regulatory mechanisms of biosynthesis of betacyanin and anthocyanin in relation to cell division activity in suspension cultures....Pages 167-169
The biosynthesis of rosmarinic acid in suspension cultures of Coleus blumei ....Pages 171-179
The biosynthetic pathway of the S-alk(en)yl-L-cysteine sulphoxides (flavour precursors) in species of Allium ....Pages 181-188
Elicitor induced secondary metabolism in Ruta graveolens L....Pages 189-198
Constitutive and elicitation induced metabolism of isoflavones and pterocarpans in chickpea ( Cicer arietinum ) cell suspension cultures....Pages 199-211
Regulation of isoflavonoid metabolism in alfalfa....Pages 213-220
Regulation of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase genes in carrot suspension cultured cells....Pages 221-225
Accumulation of anthraquinones in Morinda citrifolia cell suspensions....Pages 227-234
Calystegines as a new group of tropane alkaloids in Solanaceae....Pages 235-240
Esterification reactions in the biosynthesis of tropane alkaloids in transformed root cultures....Pages 241-247
Characterization of Coptis japonica cells with different alkaloid productivities....Pages 249-256
Traits of transgenic Atropa belladonna doubly transformed with different Agrobacterium rhizogenes strains....Pages 257-262
Effect of nitrogen and sucrose on the primary and secondary metabolism of transformed root cultures of Hyoscyamus muticus ....Pages 263-272
Catharanthine and ajmalicine synthesis in Catharanthus roseus hairy root cultures....Pages 273-279
A novel 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase involved in vindoline biosynthesis: characterization, purification and kinetic properties....Pages 281-287
Are tissue cultures of Peganum harmala a useful model system for studying how to manipulate the formation of secondary metabolites?....Pages 289-297
Breakdown of indole alkaloids in suspension cultures of Tabernaemontana divaricata and Catharanthus roseus ....Pages 299-305
The cell culture medium — a functional extracellular compartment of suspension-cultured cells....Pages 307-319
Secondary metabolites in hairy root cultures of Leontopodium alpinum Cass. (Edelweiss)....Pages 321-326
Glycosylation in cardenolide biosynthesis....Pages 327-335
Enzymes in cardenolide-accumulating shoot cultures of Digitalis purpurea L....Pages 337-344
Enzymes involved in the metabolism of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A in Catharanthus roseus ....Pages 345-349
Regulation of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase by wounding and methyl jasmonate....Pages 351-356
Back Matter....Pages 357-359