Kk. Jayavardhanan et al., LECTIN BIOSYNTHESIS IN CALLUS-CULTURE ESTABLISHED FROM SEEDS OF CANAVALIA-VIROSA, Biologia plantarum, 38(3), 1996, pp. 329-334
Plant tissue cultures established from isolated embryos or cotyledons
were used to investigate the lectin biosynthesis in Canavalia virosa.
The lectin (CVL) was detected by double immunodiffusion and hemaggluti
nation tests. CVL was present in all callus cultures. The stem and lea
f of the plantlet generated from the embryo also contain CVL, but no C
VL was detected in the roots. As compared to mature seeds, callus deri
ved from cotyledon of immature seeds exhibited the largest CVL content
.