Recycling plant wax constituents for chemical defense: Hemi-biosynthesis of triterpene saponins from β-amyrin in a leaf beetle

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 524-527

  Laurent, Pascal ^a   Dooms, Cedric ^a   Braekman, Jean Claude ^a   Daloze, Désiré ^a   Habib Jiwan, Jean Louis ^b   Rozenberg, Raoul ^b   Termonia, Arnaud ^a,c   Pasteels, Jacques M ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c BioVallée ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA AMYRIN; GLYCOSIDE; OLEANANE TRITERPENE GLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WAX;

BEETLE; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IPOMOEA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PLANT LEAF; RECYCLING; SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ASTERACEAE; BEETLES; OLEANOLIC ACID; PLANT LEAVES; SAPONINS; TRITERPENES; WAXES;

CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; IPOMOEA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; PLATYPHORA; PLATYPHORA KOLLARI;

EID: 0345375510     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0471-y     Document Type: Article

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