METHOD FOR CULTURING FOLIAR BODY OF PLANT BELONGING TO GENUS SCHIZANDRA

摘要

PURPOSE:To obtain useful components, such as lignans, having improving action on hepatopathy, antitumor action, etc., in a large amount at a low cost by bedding and culturing a shoot apical part, etc., of a plant belonging to the genus Schizandra on a culture medium containing a specific phytohormone, such as cytokinin. CONSTITUTION:A shoot apical or auxiliary bud part of a plant belonging to the genus Schizandra is preferably cultured to provide a part of a foliar body containing the apex or auxiliary bud. The resultant part is then bedded on a culture medium containing at least one phytohormone selected from 0.005-150ppm cytokinin, 0.01-100ppm gibberellin and 0.001-30ppm auxin and cultured to afford the objective foliar body.