Claudio Parra, Patricio Muñoz-Torres, Hugo Escobar, Mario J Simirgiotis, Gabriela Contreras-Contreras, Álvaro Ruiz-Fernández, Cristian Maulen, Maximiliano Martínez-Cifuentes, María Salomé Mariotti-Celis
The species Senecio nutans Sch. Bip., commonly called "chachacoma", is widely used as a medicinal plant by the Andean communities of Northern Chile. Ethanolic extracts of S. nutans and the main compound, 4-hydroxy-3-(3-methyl-2-butenyl) acetophenone, have shown interesting biological activity. However, due to the high-altitude areas where this species is found, access to S. nutans is very limited. Due to the latter, in this work, we carried out micropropagation in vitro and ex vitro adaptation techniques as an alternative for the massive multiplication, conservation, and in vitro production of high-value metabolites from this plant...
March 7, 2024: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)