Abstract
It is possible to produce 2–10 fold increases of alkaloids when the plants have been treated with high levels of nitrogen fertilization. The exceptions to this finding were the indole alkaloids and the Solanum glycoalkaloids. We propose a hypothesis to explain how the alkaloid biosynthesis may occur from amino acids in a nitrogen rich and a nitrogen poor plant and this also explains why and how that certain amino acids can be prevented from becoming toxic to the plant by synthesizing a secondary metabolite such as an alkaloid.
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