N. Lambert et al., PRODUCTION OF ROTENOIDS BY HETEROTROPHIC AND PHOTOMIXOTROPHIC CELL-CULTURES OF TEPHROSIA-VOGELII, Phytochemistry, 34(6), 1993, pp. 1515-1520
Rotenoid compounds provided from the phenylpropanoid pathway are large
ly accumulated in the leaves of Tephrosia vogelii. Heterotrophic and p
hotomixotrophic cell suspension cultures of this tropical plant have b
een obtained. Both cell lines are able to produce rotenoids, but a spe
cific production is observed in each cell culture. The photomixotrophi
c cell line accumulated rotenone and deguelin in Tephrosia leaves and
the heterotrophic cell line produced essentially deguelin and tephrosi
n.