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Plants of the genus Scopolia are perennial herbs of the family Solanaceae, and are distributed in Europe, China, Korea, and Japan. Scopolia plants contain tropane alkaloid and are used extensively for medicinal purposes.
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Zhang, Y.L. (1993). Transformation in Scopolia . In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Plant Protoplasts and Genetic Engineering III. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78006-6_28
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