@article{c160de9773d04c379da3447500857ce9,
title = "Accumulation of Cd2+ and Pb2+ in the suspension cultures of Agave amaniensis and Costus speciosus and the determination of the culture's growth and phytosteroid content",
abstract = "Cell suspension cultures of Agave amaniensis and Costus speciosus were grown in media containing Cd2+ up to 25 and 20 mg l-1 respectively, and Pb2+ up to 40 mg l-1. The cultures hyper-accumulated Cd2+ up to 900 and 530 μg g-1 and Pb2+ up to 1390 and 1170 μg g-1 dry wt. in their respective biomasses. Increasing Pb2+ up to 30 mg l-1 increased the biomass production and total sitosterol content of Costus speciosus by up to 1.7- and 1.3-fold, respectively.",
keywords = "Agave amaniensis, Costus speciosus, Heavy metals, Hecogenin, Sitosterol",
author = "Sugijanto Kartosentono and Sinar Suryawati and Gunawan Indrayanto and Zaini, {Noor Cholies}",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to the Department of Education & Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, for financial support (RUT V/1 & S3-TMPD{\textquoteright}s grant for SK), R. Soediatmoko (Faculty of Pharmacy Surabaya University) for analyzing with ICP-AES, A. Rachman (Faculty of Pharmacy Airlangga University) for his technical assistance and Christopher Goreski (Kelt English Teacher Surabaya) for checking the English usage.",
year = "2002",
doi = "10.1023/A:1015225931409",
language = "English",
volume = "24",
pages = "687--690",
journal = "Biotechnology Letters",
issn = "0141-5492",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "9",
}