The increasing demand of diosgenin for high‐revenue synthesis of steroid hormones by the
pharmaceutical industries has driven researchers to look for other alternatives. Solasodine …

Steroid alkaloid solasodine is a nitrogen analogue of diosgenin that is used as a raw
material for synthesis of steroid drugs. Plant medicinal Solanum surattense (Solanaceae) is …

Growth and steroidal alkaloid production by Solanum aviculare hairy roots were investigated
as a function of temperature, initial sucrose and exogenous solasodine concentrations, and …

Solanum melongena (L.), a medicinally important member of family Solanaceae, was
evaluated for induction of hairy roots using different strains of the soil borne bacterium …

Solanum nigrum L. were cultured under salinity stress (0—150 mM NaCl) for enhanced
production of solasodine, a steroidal alkaloid and an alternative to diosgenin, which is used …

Hairy root cultures of Solanum trilobatum L. were established from leaf explants infected with
Agrobacterium rhizogenes strains viz., MTCC 532, MTCC 2364 and ATCC A 4. Initially 27 …

Solanum eleagnifolium Cav. var leprosum (Ortega) Dunal is a species that grow in
Argentina. It is characterized for accumulating, mainly in green fruits, the glycoalkaloid …

Stem explants of Solanum hainanense Hance plantlets were cultured on Murashige and
Skoog solid medium, containing 3%(w/v) sucrose, supplemented with 0.1 mg/L …

In this work, the effects of the elicitors methyl jasmonate (MeJA) and yeast extract (YE) on the
growth and solasodine production of Solanum hainanense cells were investigated. The …

An efficient genetic transfection technique has been established using A4 strain of
Agrobacterium rhizogenes for the first time in a medicinally valuable plant Solanum …