Feeding deterrents or antifeedant chemicals are those chemicals which inhibit feeding of insect on a treated food material without necessarily killing or repelling them. Plants with ant feeding properties are increasingly being used against phytophagous insect pests for protection of crops. In the present study of growth regulating action of Leaf extract of Catharanthus roseus on development st...

from Suspension-Cultured Catharanthus roseus Cells* Yüko Yamashita and Hiroshi Ashihara Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1, Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112, Japan Z. Naturforsch. 43c, 827-834 (1988); received June 28, 1988 Catharanthus roseus, Suspension Culture, Fructokinase, Glycolysis, Hexokinase Two different hexose-phosphorylating enzymes, hexokinase and ...

For biotransformational studies, Callus of Catharanthus roseus was produced from young shoot tip on Murashige & Skoog medium supplemented with 1.5 mg/litre 2, 4-D and 0.5 mg/litre Kin, solidified by 8 g/litre agar at 25±1°C under complete darkness. The cultures were maintained on the same medium at 25±1 °C in the dark by subculturing after every four weeks. Suspension culture of the plant was p...

A cell suspension culture o f Catharanthus roseus was trea ted during the grow th phase w ith the nucleoside analogue 5-azacytidine, a powerful inducer o f cell d ifferen tia tion , as evidenced w ith animal and hum an cell lines. After induction the cell cu lture was fu rth er incubated in a production m edium in the absence o f the inducer for 10 days. T he extraction o f the freeze dried cel...

The tetraploid plants of Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don was obtained by colchicine induction from seeds explants, and the ploidy of the plants was identified by flow cytometry. The optimal treatment is 0.2% colchicine solution treated for 24 hours, and the induction rate reaches up to 30%. Comparing with morphological characteristics and growth habits between tetraploids and the control, we fo...

No study has been performed on identifying microRNAs (miRNAs) and their targets in the medicinal plant, Catharanthus roseus. In the present study, using the comparative genomics approach, we have predicted two potential C. roseus miRNAs. Furthermore, twelve potential mRNA targets were identified in C. roseus genome based on the characteristics that miRNAs exhibit perfect or nearly perfect compl...

While much work have been done on Catharan­ thus roseus (Apocynaceae) resulting in the isolation of about 100 alkaloids, there is persistent interest in the plant and new alkaloids continue to be reported. In continuation of our isolation and synthetic studies on the alkaloids of Catharanthus roseus [1 — 15], we have isolated a new alkaloid from the leaves of this plant by a combination of sele...

Gloriosa superba and Catharanthus roseus are useful in traditional medicine for treatment of various skin diseases and cancer. However, their molecular effect on psoriasis has not been investigated. In this study, the effect of ethanol extracts derived from G. superba leaves and C. roseus stems on the expression of psoriatic marker, keratin 17 (K17), was investigated in human keratinocytes usin...

catharanthus roseus is a medicinal and ornamental plant with growing attention toward its economical value. cell suspension from c. roseus were treated with 0 to 60mm of cadmium nitrate for 1, 3 and 6 days, then cell viability was determined using trypan blue and mtt assay. cell morphology was investigated using 0, 10, 30 and 50 mm of cadmium nitrate as selected dose for 3 days. callus of c.ros...