Several compounds and families of compounds of date palm secondary metabolites have been investigated. The analysis of date palm tissue has shown the abundance of secondary metabolites including phytosterols, e.g., steroids, an important group of pharmaceutical compounds. Biotechnology offers the opportunity to utilize cells, tissues, and organs grown in vitro and manipulated to obtain desired compounds. This chapter presents a protocol for the production, determination, and identification of steroids in date palm callus tissue. The addition of 0.01 mg/L pyruvic acid as a precursor to MS liquid culture medium enhances steroid production. In addition, the chapter describes the sterol analytical techniques based on gas-liquid chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
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El-Sharabasy, S., & El-Dawayati, M. (2017). Bioreactor steroid production and analysis of date palm embryogenic callus. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1637, pp. 309–318). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7156-5_25
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