Papers by Mercedes Bonfill
Biomedical Chromatography, Jan 2, 2002
A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic assay for the simultaneous quantitative ... more A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic assay for the simultaneous quantitative determination of seven ginsenosides, Rb(1), Rb(2), Rc, Rd, Rg(1), Re and Rf in pharmaceutical preparations is described. Chromatographic separation was achieved in less than 20 min using a 250 x 4 mm Lichrospher, 5 microm, 100 A diol column with detection at 203 nm. The method was validated over the range of 2.5-20 ng/microL using a 20 microL sample volume. The average accuracy at five concentrations was 90-100%, and the within-day and between-day precision ranged from 1 to 7% expressed as coefficient of variation. The detection limit and the quantitation limit of the method were 20 and 50 ng injected for each ginsenoside, respectively.
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Phytochemistry, 2014
Trichoderma atroviridae UB-LMA is an endophytic fungus isolated from Taxus baccata trees. Liquid-... more Trichoderma atroviridae UB-LMA is an endophytic fungus isolated from Taxus baccata trees. Liquid-state fermentation coupled to in situ solid phase extraction (SPE) was applied, and four compounds were discovered. Compounds 2-4 belong to the harziane tetracyclic diterpene family. Bicylic compound 1 may represent the biosynthetic precursor of this scarce family of compounds.
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The Journal of Antibiotics, Sep 20, 2017
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Antioxidants, Apr 5, 2023
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Apr 14, 2004
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Salinity is an abiotic stress that reduces the seed germination and productivity of wheat. The ob... more Salinity is an abiotic stress that reduces the seed germination and productivity of wheat. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of irrigation with magnetically treated seawater on the germination, growth, certain physiological and anatomical parameters, and production attributes of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cv. Sakha 93 plants. Experiments were conducted in the Experimental Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, Menoufia University, Egypt, during two consecutive winter seasons. Pot experiments involved ten treatments with non-magnetized and magnetized water with various degrees of salinity. Plant samples were taken 95 days after sowing. Irrigation with magnetically treated seawater was found to have beneficial effects on plant growth, water relations, biochemical characteristics, and yield components compared with untreated plants. The germination of wheat seeds increased 13% when treated with magnetic seawater. On the yield scale, the spike length was increased by 4...
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Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2018
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Frontiers in Plant Science, Sep 2, 2022
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Frontiers in Plant Science, Jan 26, 2023
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Gene, Jul 1, 2021
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Biomedical Chromatography, Feb 1, 2002
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RSC Advances, 2015
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Hairy roots are made after the integration of a small set of genes from Agrobacterium rhizogenes ... more Hairy roots are made after the integration of a small set of genes from Agrobacterium rhizogenes in the plant genome. Little is known about how this small set is linked to their hormone profile, which determines development, morphology, and levels of secondary metabolite production. We used C. asiatica hairy root line cultures to determine the putative links between the rol and aux gene expressions with morphological traits, a hormone profile, and centelloside production. The results obtained after 14 and 28 days of culture were processed via multivariate analysis and machine-learning processes such as random forest, supported vector machines, linear discriminant analysis, and neural networks. This allowed us to obtain models capable of discriminating highly productive root lines from their levels of genetic expression (rol and aux genes) or from their hormone profile. In total, 12 hormones were evaluated, resulting in 10 being satisfactorily detected. Within this set of hormones, a...
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Journal of Plant Physiology, Sep 1, 2018
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Plant and Cell Physiology, Mar 1, 1995
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Frontiers in Plant Science, Jul 8, 2022
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New Biotechnology, Sep 1, 2009
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Plant Biotechnology Journal, Jun 9, 2014
Methyl jasmonate and cyclodextrins are proven effective inducers of secondary metabolism in plant... more Methyl jasmonate and cyclodextrins are proven effective inducers of secondary metabolism in plant cell cultures. Cyclodextrins, which are cyclic oligosaccharides, can form inclusion complexes with nonhydrophilic secondary products, thus increasing their excretion from the producer cells to the culture medium. In the present work, using a selected Taxus x media cell line cultured in a two-stage system, the relationship between taxane production and the transcript profiles of several genes involved in taxol metabolism was studied to gain more insight into the mechanism by which these two elicitors regulate the biosynthesis and excretion of taxol and related taxanes. Gene expression was not clearly enhanced by the presence of cyclodextrins in the culture medium and variably induced by methyl jasmonate, but when the culture was supplemented with both elicitors, a synergistic effect on transcript accumulation was observed. The BAPT and DBTNBT genes, which encode the last two transferases involved in the taxol pathway, appeared to control limiting biosynthetic steps. In the cell cultures treated with both elicitors, the produced taxanes were found mainly in the culture medium, which limited retroinhibition processes and taxane toxicity for the producer cells. The expression level of a putative ABC gene was found to have increased, suggesting it played a role in the taxane excretion. Taxol biosynthesis was clearly increased by the joint action of methyl jasmonate and cyclodextrins, reaching production levels 55 times higher than in nonelicited cultures.
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Plant and Cell Physiology, Dec 16, 2019
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