Chemical diversity and variation of pyrrolizidine alkaloids of the senecionine type: Biological need or coincidence

Planta

Volumn 206, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 443-451

  Hartmann, Thomas ^a   Dierich, Barbara ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biosynthetic transformation; Diversification (chemical); Plant defence (constitutive) Pyrrolizidine alkaloid; Senecio; Senecionine N oxide

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROXYLATION; OTONECINE; PUTRESCINE; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; RETRONECINE; SENECIONINE N OXIDE;

SENECIO ERUCIFOLIUS; SENECIO INAEQUIDENS; SENECIO JACOBAEA; SENECIO VERNALIS; SENECIO VULGARIS;

EID: 0031664299     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250050420     Document Type: Article

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