Therefore, in the current research work, our first attempt was to analyze the effect of different combinations of benzyl amino purine(BAP) and naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) to establish the optimised conditions for the maximum denovo regeneration of normal in vitro raised plant lets of S. ciliata using leaf discs as explants.
Next , we directed our attention to select the optimum extraction ratio of plant : solvent (w/v) for maximum elution of alkylamides.
For this purpose, the fresh plant stocks comprising of all vegetative parts including leaves, stem, buds and roots of
S. ciliata were subjected to extraction with ethanol.
Finally, alkylamide profiling of an ethanolic extract of S. ciliata whole plant was initiated using a gradient reversed phase LC-ESI-Q-TOF (HRMS) due to its high resolution and the ability to analyze by mass alkylamide ions of interest [5,24].
Our results reveal the presence of nearly 14 distinct N-alkylamides from in vitro raised plant lets including the exclusively detected compound 1 and 5 in comparison to field growing counterparts(Table 2A and Table 2B).
This finding provides a new insight in the potential of exploiting tissue culture derived amides to meet the ever increasing demand of pharmaceutical sector. However, further quantification studies are needed in order to validate the use of in vitro derived alkylamides on commercial scale.