Figure 4.
Bryonolic acid production in Cucurbita pepo L. roots under two growth conditions, peat-based media (a) and moist blotting paper (b). Bryonolic acid content is observed to increase from day 2 to day 16 in peat-based media and from day 2 to day 24 in moist blotting paper, as observed by growing HPLC peak areas (c and d). At its maximum, BA content in roots from moist blotting paper is roughly tenfold greater than that detected in roots from peat-based media, as is apparent in the respective scales.