background: plants infection with microorganisms as well as physical factors such as osmotic stresses especially drought stress induced particular secondary metabolite production. objective: plant root and shoot hyoscyamine (hyo) and scopolamine (sco) variations were investigated under three water deficit stress (wds) levels as 30 (w1), 60 (w2) and 90 % (w3) water depletion of field capacity an...

This study describes the spasmolytic, antidiarrhoeal, antisecretory, bronchodilatory and urinary bladder relaxant properties of Hyoscyamus niger to rationalize some of its medicinal uses. The crude extract of H. niger seeds (Hn.Cr) caused a complete concentration-dependent relaxation of spontaneous contractions of rabbit jejunum, similar to that caused by verapamil, whereas atropine produced pa...

This study was aimed to determine the effects of different concentrations L-phenylalanine (0.25, 0.50 and 1.00 mM L-Phe) applied adventitious root cultures for culture durations on growth production tropane alkaloids phenolics in Hyoscyamus niger. For this purpose, roots obtained from petiole explants vitro seedlings were used as plant materials. After cultured liquid Murashige Skoog (MS) mediu...