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<jats:p>Tropane alkaloids are typical natural products of solanaceous plants. The patterns of these alkaloids from hairy roots of Hyoscyamus albus were determined by GC-MS analysis. 18 alka-loidal compounds were detected, six of them only in trace amounts. Some of these alkaloids, namely hygrine, 3a-acetoxytropane, 3 β-acetoxytropane and 6-hydroxylittorine as well as the trace compounds N-methylpyrrolidinylhygrine, phenylacetoxytropane and two isomers of feruloyloxytropane were not previously reported to be components of this species. The major compounds formed were found to be hyoscyamine and littorine.</jats:p>