| Literature DB >> 24233360 |
H Gavish1, E Lewinsohn, A Vardi, R Fluhr.
Abstract
Grapefruit (Citrus paradisi) tissue cultures were examined for qualitative and quantitative changes in flavanone-neohesperidoside content during somatic embryogenesis. Embryos cultured in vitro contain naringin and a rhamnosyl-transferase activity which is capable of rhamnosylating position 2 on the flavanone glucosides. Rhamnosylation is carried out only in embryos cultivated on solid medium but not in embryos grown in suspension cell cultures.Entities:
Year: 1989 PMID: 24233360 DOI: 10.1007/BF00270076
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Plant Cell Rep ISSN: 0721-7714 Impact factor: 4.570