Abstract:
The East Indian Sandalwood, Santalum album L., a tropical woody tree, deposits
sesquiterpenoid rich essential oil in the heartwood. In view of its century-old traditional
uses in perfumery and healthcare this investigation in prospecting of phenylpropanoid
and terpenoids from in vitro tissues, in comparison to the in vivo trees, was undertaken to
throw light on the phytochemistry of the healthcare molecules, explore in vitro tissues as
alternate avenues for the supply and profiling of metabolites as a pre-requisite towards
future sesquiterpenoid biosynthetic studies in this plant.
