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Abstract

Kostřiba J.: In vitro cultures of higher plants XXVII. Diploma Paper, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Department of Pharmaceutical Botany and Ecology, 2007, p. 61 The work aimed at biotransformation of exogenous precursors of arbutin with in vitro cultures of Centella asiatica (L.). The precursors of arbutin were added into the medium (hydroquinone, tyrosine, p-coumaric acid, hydroxybenzoic acid). The precursors were used in a concentration of 200 mg/l and the period of their action was 6, 12, 24, 48 and 168 hours (1 week). The cultivation of calluses was created by two different ways - by suspension culture and by culture cultivated on the filter-paper bridge. The cultivation was prosecuted on the light. Positive results (both TLC and HPLC analysis) in arbutin production were obtained in all suspension cultures after an addition of hydroquinone. The largest amount of arbutin in callus cultures was measured after a 48 hours cultivation (0,043 %). After a 168 hours cultivation was amount of arbutin only 0,038 %. In this experimental variant arbutin was also released into the medium (0,096 %). Biotransformation experiments with the others precursors of arbutin were not successful. The way of cultivation by the filter-paper bridges was also unsuccessful