| Literature DB >> 16324728 |
Luis F R Conceição1, Federico Ferreres, Rui M Tavares, Alberto C P Dias.
Abstract
Changes in phenolic metabolism after elicitation with Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (CG) has been studied in Hypericum perforatum L. (HP) cell suspension cultures. Soluble phenolics were analysed by HPLC-DAD and HPLC-DAD-MS/MS. HP cultures elicited with the CG elicitor showed a significant increase in xanthone accumulation. Xanthone accumulation increased twelve fold when the cells were primed with methyl-jasmonate (MeJ) or salicylic acid (SA), before elicitation. HP cultures exposed only to MeJ produced a set of flavonoids, the flavones which represent a substantial part (approx. 40%) of the total flavonoids accumulated in these cells. The possible importance of xanthones as a component of defence mechanism of HP against biotic stress is discussed.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16324728 DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2005.10.017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phytochemistry ISSN: 0031-9422 Impact factor: 4.072