Title
Biomass production and secondary metabolite identification in callus cultures of Coryphantha macromeris (Engelm.) Britton & Rose (Cactaceae), a traditional medicinal plant
Date Issued
01 March 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Cabañas-García E.
Gómez-Aguirre Y.A.
Borquez J.
Muñoz R.
Cruz-Sosa F.
Balch E.P.M.
Universidad de Chile
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Plant cell, tissue, and organ culture have become a powerful technology for the production of biomass, and for the research and biosynthesis of a variety of secondary metabolites. In this work, we report an efficient method for friable callus induction applied to the medicinal cactus Coryphantha macromeris, its kinetic behavior, and its phytochemical profile, assessed at the maximum biomass production phase. Callus cultures were obtained from stem discs inoculated on Murashige and Skoog medium (MS) supplemented with 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP; 2.2 µM) and picloram (4.14 µM). The highest biomass production (20.65 g DW L−1) was achieved at nine weeks of culture. Then, the phytochemical profile was analyzed using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-tandem Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-PDA-HESI-Orbitrap-MS/MS). Chromatographic and mass spectrometric analyses indicated the presence of 61 metabolites, with 52 being identified. Among these compounds, 11 organic acids, 16 phenolic acids, 8 flavonoids, and 17 metabolites of different classes were identified. Our results could significantly contribute to the current knowledge of tissue culture of cacti species, as well as the potential applications of the in vitro callus culture of C. macromeris. Furthermore, we report the presence of some metabolites in cell culture of cacti species and their fragmentation pattern for the first time.
Start page
1
End page
9
Volume
137
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Agronomía Biología celular, Microbiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85092714790
Source
South African Journal of Botany
ISSN of the container
02546299
Source funding
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT), grant number 366290, and resources given by the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes and by the National Fund of Scientific and Technological Development of Chile (Fondecyt No. 1150745). We also thank Gladis Solis Castañeda (Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes), for technical support.
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