Front Cover/Cover Picture. Artemisia annua L. is an annual herb of Asteraceae family, one the famous traditional Chinese medicines, commonly known as “Qing Hao”. However, in Chongming District Shanghai, it called “Ku Cao” and has been used for women's post-natal rehabilitation a long time. In this study, five new monoterpene glycosides (1–5) two sesquiterpenoid (6 7) were isolated from water ex...

Synthesis of (+)-costic acid, isolated from Dittrichia viscosa (L.) W. Greuter as a natural acaricidal sesquiterpenoid, was achieved in 16 steps (R)-carvone with an overall yield 4.8%, involving the radical cyclization selenoester to construct decalone framework key step. Other structurally related products, (+)-costal, (+)-costol, and (+)-β-selinene, were also synthesized. The activities these...

Some Dorema species are used in Persian traditional medicine. In the present study the total extract from the roots of Dorema hyrcanum Koso-Pol. was investigated for its in vitro (pLDH assay) and in vivo (Peters’ 4-days suppressive test) antiplasmodial effects and assessed for cytotoxicity against the normal cell line MDBK (MTT test). The IC50 values for a chloroquine- sensitive (3D7) and a chl...

Terpenoid volatiles are important information molecules that enable pollinators to locate flowers and may protect reproductive tissues against pathogens or herbivores. Inflorescences of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) are composed of tiny green flowers that produce an abundance of sesquiterpenoid volatiles. We demonstrate that male flower parts of grapevines are responsible for sesquiterpenoid fl...

In most insect species, juvenile hormones regulate critical physiological processes such as metamorphosis and reproduction. In insects, these sesquiterpenoids are synthesized by retrocerebral endocrine organs, the corpora allata, via the classical mevalonate (MVA) pathway. One of these compounds, juvenile hormone III (JH III), has also been identified in the sedge Cyperus iria. In higher plants...

Leaves of 13 interspecific and intergeneric citrus somatic allotetraploid hybrids were analysed and compared with those of their respective parents (lime, lemons, citron, orange, kumquat, poncirus and mandarin) with regards to their sesquiterpenoid contents (μg/g dry weight). The hybrids do not fully retain their parental traits. Sesquiterpenoid production is much reduced (by ~65–90%) in hybrid...