background & aim: a. belladonna (family: solanaceae) is one of important pharmaceutical plants which contain tropane ‎alkaloids. tropane alkaloids are distinct group of secondary metabolites of the ‎solanaceae family.  the most important alkaloids of a. belladonna are atropine and hyoscine that are used extensively because of their medicinal properties. therefore identification and ‎determi...

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Plant alkaloids, one of the largest groups of natural products, provide many pharmacologically active compounds. Several genes in the biosynthetic pathways for scopolamine, nicotine, and berberine have been cloned, making the metabolic engineering of these alkaloids possible. Expression of two branching-point enzymes was engineered: putrescine N-methyltransferase (PMT) in transgenic plants of A...

Isolated, nick-translated Pvu II fragments of Nicotiana tabacum chloroplast DNA produce specific intra- and intergeneric hybridization signals with chloroplast DNA digests from several representatives of the Solanaceae. These data, along with similarities in restriction enzyme patterns, permit construction of physical maps for Nicotiana line 92 (a cytoplasmic substitution line), Atropa belladon...

In this overview we explore the electroanalytical determination of molecule murder: atropine. Atropine, occurs naturally in various plants nightshade family, including deadly (Atropa belladonna). On one hand, atropine, a tropane alkaloid, has medical uses, named on World Health Organisations list essential medicines, used for example resuscitations and as an antidote to certain poison gases ins...