Comparative Study on the Production and Accumulation of Essential Oil in the whole Plant and in the Callus Culture of Matricaria chamomilla.
Localisation, accumulation and composition of the essential oil in different plant parts of MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA L. were investigated. An organ specific distribution of individual components in the different essential oils could be shown. Only the essential oil of the roots contained the sesquiterpenes Chamomillol, Caryophyllen, Caryophyllenepoxide and the polyenes Chamomillaester I and II. The essential oil of MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA roots is accumulated in schizogenous oil passages and oil cells restricted to the roots. Callus surface cultures of MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA initiated from stems and flowerheads produced an essential oil similar to that of the root. It is exclusively accumulated in oil cells typical of the roots.
Reichling
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Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, D-6900 Heidelberg 1.
Bisson
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Becker
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