RESEARCH REGARDING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN TOTAL LIPIDS CONTENT AND BIOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY AT DIFFERENT ALKALOID TYPES STRAINS OF CLAVICEPS PURPUREA SCLEROTIA
In this paper we present the results concerning the correlation between total lipids content and biosynthetic capacity expressed by total alkaloid content. We have analysed ten dried Claviceps purpurea sclerotia of ergotamine and ergocristine types, harvested from rye artificial infected. At ergotamine strains the total lipids amount is higher than the ergocristine strains, behaviour that is not present at the biosynthetic capacity. We find also that the ergotamine strains studied present a higher weight than the ergocristine type.
