Three separate experiments were conducted to investigate the interplay between three phytohormones and sucrose for the change of flower color composition and the plant secondary metabolites in Tulipa. The variations of the physiological and morphological characteristics, with ABA at 5 and 10 mg/L (as experiment one), GA3 at 300 ‎and 500 mg/L ‏‎‎(as experiment two), 50 and 10...

The new lignan glucoside, acutumoside (1), was isolated from Sinomenium acutum rhizomes together with nine known compounds (2-10). The structure of 1 was elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analyses, including two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance and chemical reactions. Compounds 2, 7, 8, and 10 displayed potential antiproliferative activity against A549, SK-OV-3, SK-MEL-2,...

A new pentacyclic cucurbitane glucoside, named aoibaclyin (1) and a new triterpene (2) have been isolated from the EtOH extract of the fruits of Gymnopetalum integrifolium Kurz (Cucurbitaceae), together with three known compounds, bryoamaride (3), 25-O-acetylbryoamaride (4) and beta-sitosterol 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (5). The structures of these compounds were elucidated by spectroscopic ana...

A cell suspension culture o f Catharanthus roseus was trea ted during the grow th phase w ith the nucleoside analogue 5-azacytidine, a powerful inducer o f cell d ifferen tia tion , as evidenced w ith animal and hum an cell lines. After induction the cell cu lture was fu rth er incubated in a production m edium in the absence o f the inducer for 10 days. T he extraction o f the freeze dried cel...

The present study optimized the ultrasound assisted extraction (UAE) conditions to maximize the antioxidant activity [Ferric ion Reducing Antioxidant Power (FRAP)], total phenol content (TP) and content of individual polyphenols of extracts from marjoram. Optimal conditions with regard to amplitude of sonication (24.4-61.0 μm) and extraction temperature (15-35 °C) and extraction time (5-15 min)...

Four functional constituents, oxyresveratrol 3'-O-β-D-glucoside (ORTG), oxyresveratrol (ORT), t-resveratrol (RT), and moracin (MC) were isolated from the ethanolic extract of mulberry (Morus alba L.) twigs by a series of isolation procedures, including solvent fractionation, and silica-gel, ODS-A, and Sephadex LH-20 column chromatographies. Their chemical structures were identified by NMR and F...

A new cucurbitane glucoside, 23-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-7-hydroxy-3-O-malonylcucurbita-5,24-dien-19-al, named momordicine V, has been isolated from Momordica charantia leaves, along with the previously reported compounds, momordicines I, II, IV and 3-O-malonylmomordicine I. The structure of the new compound was established on the basis of spectral analysis, as well as by its conversion to momor...

A new polyacetylene glucoside (3E,5E,11E)-tridecatriene-7,9-diyne-1,2,13-triol-2-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (1), a new phenylpropanoid glucoside 2'-butoxyethylconiferin (2), and a new flavonoid glycoside 8,3',4'-trihydroxyflavone-7-O-(6''-O-p-coumaroyl)-β-D-glucopyranoside (3), have been isolated from Bidens frondosa together with fifty-three known compounds 4-56. The structures of these compounds w...

Benzoxazinoids were identified in the early 1960s as secondary metabolites of the grasses that function as natural pesticides and exhibit allelopathic properties. Benzoxazinoids are synthesized in seedlings and stored as glucosides (glcs); the main aglucone moieties are 2,4-dihydroxy-2H-1,4-benzoxazin-3(4H)-one (DIBOA) and 2,4-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-2H-1,4-benzoxazin-3(4H)-one (DIMBOA). The genes ...