Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Villarreal, M L
• Nicasio, P
• Rojas, G
• Alvarez, L
• Quintero, R

Titel

Recent progress in biotechnology of Mexican medicinal plants

Ist Teil von

• Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 1999, Vol.464, p.221

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Based on traditional medicinal knowledge, it was possible to identify the plant species Solanum chrysotrichum as the source of a new antimycotic agent designated SC-1. Cell suspension batch cultures from this plant were established in shake flasks, in which the production of SC-1 was optimized, reaching values fifty times higher than those registered in field grown plants. Large-scale cultivation of the active biomass from S. chrysotrichum was established in 10 l airlift bioreactors, and productivity levels of SC-1 were increased by 60% when using a draw-fill mode in the bioreactors.