What is it about?
UPLC-DAD assisted quantification revealed increase in 8 commercially important active principles in T. cordifolia diploid. Triploid genotypes showed heterotic effect and uprise of secondary metabolites. Sex specificity in terms of certain chemical compounds getting expressed more in male plants while others in female was explicit. The effect of ecogeographical conditions allowed identification of two elite genotypes from the wild
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Why is it important?
Chemical prospecting involving quantification of commercially important active principles can help in identification of elites for cultivation and for devising conservation strategies
Perspectives
Before giloe is exploited for cultivation or conservation, the ploidy and sex of the genotype must be ascertained as there is significant increase of alkaloids and other secondary metabolites at triploid and tetraploid levels in comparison to diploids
Dr Vijay Rani Rajpal
Hansraj College, Delhi University
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This page is a summary of: UPLC-DAD Assisted Phytochemical Quantitation Reveals a Sex, Ploidy and Ecogeography Specificity in the Expression Levels of Selected Secondary Metabolites in Medicinal Tinospora cordifolia: Implications for Elites’ Identification Program, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, April 2020, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1568026620666200124105027.
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