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Comparison of Stevia plants grown from seeds, cuttings and stem-tip cultures for growth and sweet diterpene glucosides

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The growth and sweet diterpene glucosides of Stevia plants propagated by stem-tip cultures were compared with those of the control plants propagated by seeds. There was no significant difference between the two groups both in growth and in chemical composition. As for the contents of sweet diterpene glucosides, however, the clonal plants showed significantly smaller variations than the sexually propagated plants; they were almost as homogeneous as the plants propagated by cuttings. These results suggest that the clonal propagation by stem-tip culture is an effective method of obtaining a population of uniform plants for the production of sweet diterpene glucosides.

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  1. Research Laboratory, Maruzen Kasei Co., Ltd., Mukaihigashi, 722, Onomichi, Japan

    Yukiyoshi Tamura & Shigeharu Nakamura

  2. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, 606, Kyoto, Japan

    Hiroshi Fukui & Mamoru Tabata

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  1. Yukiyoshi Tamura
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Communicated by J. Widholm

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Tamura, Y., Nakamura, S., Fukui, H. et al. Comparison of Stevia plants grown from seeds, cuttings and stem-tip cultures for growth and sweet diterpene glucosides. Plant Cell Reports 3, 180–182 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00270194

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