TRANSFER OF BIPIPERIDYL AND QUINOLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS TO VISCUM-CRUCIATUM SIEBER (LORANTHACEAE) HEMIPARASITIC ON RETAMA-SPHAEROCARPA BOISSIER(LEGUMINOSAE)

Authors
CORDERO CM SERRANO AMG GONZALEZ MJA
Citation
Cm. Cordero et al., TRANSFER OF BIPIPERIDYL AND QUINOLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS TO VISCUM-CRUCIATUM SIEBER (LORANTHACEAE) HEMIPARASITIC ON RETAMA-SPHAEROCARPA BOISSIER(LEGUMINOSAE), Journal of chemical ecology, 19(10), 1993, pp. 2389-2393
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Ecology,Biology
Journal title
Journal of chemical ecology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00980331
Volume
19
Issue
10
Year of publication
1993
Pages
2389 - 2393
Database
ISI
SICI code
0098-0331(1993)19:10<2389:TOBAQA>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Plant material of Viscum cruciatum Sieber contains bipiperidyl (ammode ndrine) and quinolizidine alkaloids (lupanine, 5,6-dehydrolupanine, re tamine, cytisine, N-methylcytisine). This plant obtains the alkaloids by root parasitism on Retama sphaerocarpa Boissier (host plant). These results have important implications for Viscum ecology, for the study of herbivores that are Viscum specialists, and in the development of systems for the investigation of the role of alkaloids as plant defens es.