https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2011.e4

Tissue specific variation in biochemical compositions of Acorus calamus (L.) leaves and rhizomes

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011)
Submitted: 14 January 2011
Accepted: 16 May 2011
Published: 5 December 2011
Acorus calamus, glycolipid, rhizome, sugar
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Deepak Ganjewala
deepakganjawala73@yahoo.com
Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore, (TN), India, India.
Asha Devi S.
School of Biosciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore, India.
Ashwani Kumar Srivastava
Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India.
Sweet Flag (Acorus calamus L.) leaf and rhizome tissues were analyzed for biochemical compositions notably of carbohydrates and lipids. The glycolipid content measured in rhizome tissue was 62.3mg%/FW almost double the glycolipid content (28.8 mg%/FW) in leaf tissues, whereas the sterol content in the leaf tissue (47.9 mg%/FW) was three times of the sterol content in rhizome tissues (15.5 mg%/FW). Carbohydrates content such as total sugar, reducing sugar, sucrose and fructose measured in leaf and rhizome tissues were more or less similar, with slightly higher values of total sugar (18.2 mg%/FW) in the leaf tissues. The study thus revealed variation in biochemical compositions in two different tissues leaf and rhizome of A. calamus.

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Ganjewala, D., Devi S., A., & Srivastava, A. K. (2011). Tissue specific variation in biochemical compositions of Acorus calamus (L.) leaves and rhizomes. International Journal of Plant Biology, 2(1), e4. https://doi.org/10.4081/pb.2011.e4

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