Quinolizidine alkaloid status of Styphnolobium and Cladrastis (Leguminosae)

Geoffrey C. Kite; R. Toby Pennington

doi:10.1016/S0305-1978(03)00118-2

Quinolizidine alkaloid status of Styphnolobium and Cladrastis (Leguminosae)

Geoffrey C. Kite
, R. Toby Pennington

Department of Biology

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Abstract

Reports of quinolizidine alkaloids in Styphnolobium Schott and Cladrastis Raf. (Leguminosae) conflict with their position in recent molecular phylogenies because they are not members of a major clade of quinolizidine alkaloid-accumulating taxa. The alkaloid status of these two genera was therefore re-investigated using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Quinolizidine alkaloids could not be detected in extracts of leaves, flowers or seeds of S. japonicum (L.) Schott, nor in leaves of S. affine (Torrey & A. Gray) Walp., C. delavayi (Franch.) Prain, C. kentukea (Dum.-Cours.) Rudd or C. platycarpa Mak. In contrast, Calia secundiflora (Ortega) Yakovlev, also currently placed outside the major clade of quinolizidine alkaloid-producing genera in molecular phylogenies, was confirmed to accumulate a range of quinolizidine alkaloids.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1409-1416
Number of pages	8
Journal	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
Volume	31
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-1978(03)00118-2
State	Published - Dec 2003

Keywords

Calia
Chemosystematics
Cladrastis
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
Leguminosae
Quinolizidine alkaloids
Sophora
Styphnolobium

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Quinolizidine alkaloid status of Styphnolobium and Cladrastis (Leguminosae)

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