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Fumaria capreolata was taken into cell suspension culture. The culture yielded a biomass of about 12 g dry weight per liter of medium; the dried cells contained ca. 0.1% of alkaloids. Besides choline, the following ten known isoquinoline alkaloids were isolated from the cell extract in crystalline form: coptisine, dehydrocheilanthifoline; (+)-isoboldine; magnoflorine; N-methylcoclaurine; (+)-reticuline; (−)-pallidine; protopine; sanguinarine; (−)-scoulerine. This is the most diverse isoquinoline alkaloid spectrum thus far published for a cell suspension culture.
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Tanahashi, T., Zenk, M.H. Isoquinoline alkaloids from cell suspension cultures of Fumaria capreolata . Plant Cell Reports 4, 96–99 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00269216
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