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Alkaloid profiles of the Indian land races of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum L

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Title Alkaloid profiles of the Indian land races of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum L
 
Creator Prajapati, Seema
Bajpai, Suphla
Singh, Digvijay
Luthra, Rajesh
Gupta, Madan M.
Kumar, Sushil
 
Subject Alkaloid deficient mutations
Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids
Land race accessions
Opium poppy
Papaver somniferum
Phenanthrene alkaloids
 
Description The capsule husks of a set of 115 Indian land races of opium poppy Papaver somniferum L. obtained over two
cropping seasons were screened for the percent contents of papaverine, reticuline, narcotine, thebaine, codeinone,
codeine, morphine and oripavine. Among the accessions screened 36, 7 and 1 did not accumulate papaverine,
papaverine and narcotine and codeine and morphine, respectively. The alkaloid profiles and correlations between
alkaloids in all the four classes of accessions showed that in the Indian genetic resources of P. somniferum (a)
morphine is synthesized from codeine rather than oripavine, (b) net alkaloid contents are low under narcotine
deficiency, and (c) accumulation of morphine and codeine was limited upstream of codeinone and morphinone.
The accessions identified to be harboring genetic blocks in the phenenthrine and benzylisoquinoline biosynthetic
pathways will be useful for understanding the genetic control of secondary metabolism in opium poppy.
Partial financial
support of the Department of Biotechnology Government of India for genebank work is gratefully acknowledged.
 
Date 2013-10-21T06:09:03Z
2013-10-21T06:09:03Z
2002
13 June 2001
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 49: 183-188
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/26
 
Language en
 
Publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers