Genetic Studies of Induced Mutants in Melilotus alba . I. Short‐Internode Dwarf, Curled Leaf, Multifoliolate Leaf, and Cotyledonary Branching 1

Genetic Studies of Induced Mutants in Melilotus alba. II. Inheritance and Complementation of Chlorophyll-deficient Mutants

Six ethyl methanesulfonate-induced mutants of Melilotus alba Desr. were studied. Five of the mutants behaved as monogenic recessives. In the sixth mutant, two independent recessive alleles were responsible for the observed phenotype. Of these two genes, one had a phenotypic effect similar to the five single-gene mutants. The other (the veined gene) caused a chlorophyll deficiency in which the l...

Pharmacognostical Studies on Melilotus Indica All Leaf

The present study deals with the pharmacognostic studies on the leaves of Melilotus indica. The drug shows the presence of tannins, Xanthoprotein, starch, cystine, sterols, triterpenoids, reducing sugars, saponins and alkaloids.

Genetic Blocks in the Synthesis of Coumarin in Melilotus alba

Effective in vitro seed germination and direct regeneration from cotyledonary leaf explants of Nitraria schoberi

Nitraria schoberi (Ghar-e-Daghin in Persian) from Zygophyllaceae (Nitrariaceae) family is considered as a wonderful exquisite plant in terms of its economical, medicinal, animal feed, significant values and also its unique characteristics of being tolerant to the soil salinity, drought and erosion. On the other hand, this plant is challenging with severe problems such as seed dormancy, plant gr...

The biosynthesis of coumarin in Melilotus alba.

Previous investigations have shown that CY4-labeled transcinnamic acid is rapidly converted to o-coumaric acid P-glucoside by shoots of Melilotus alba (white sweet clover) (1) and Hierochlod odorata (sweet grass) (2). This glucoside is then converted to coumarin (l-3), possibly by way of trans-cis isomerization of the glucoside to coumarinic acid P-glucoside. The small amount of radioactivity f...