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Biological activities of sesquiterpene lactones
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This review summarizes the present knowledge regarding the biological activities of sesquiterpene lactones and their structure-activity relationships and suggests their evolutionary significance in plants as deterrents against herbivores and anti-fungal, anti-bacterial allelopathic agents.About:
This article is published in Biochemical Systematics and Ecology.The article was published on 1986-05-12. It has received 552 citations till now.read more
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Higher plant terpenoids:a phytocentric overview of their ecological roles
TL;DR: Characteristics of higher plant terpenoids that result in mediation of numerous kinds of ecological interactions are discussed as a framework for this Symposium on Chemical Ecology of Terpenoids, and the role of terpenoid mixtures is emphasized.
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What made sesquiterpene lactones reach cancer clinical trials
TL;DR: This review focuses on the chemical and biological properties of SLs that lead to enhanced anticancer and anti-inflammatory effects.
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Sesquiterpenoids Lactones: Benefits to Plants and People
TL;DR: The varied ecological roles of sesquiterpenes in the plant producer, depending upon the plant and the compound are explored, including allelopathy with other plants, insects, and microbes, thereby causing behavioural or developmental modification to these secondary organisms to the benefit of the sesqiterpenoid producer.
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Role of secondary metabolites in defense mechanisms of plants
TL;DR: This review presents an overview about some of the mechanisms by which plants protect themselves against herbivory, pathogenic microbes and various abiotic stresses as well as specific plant responses to pathogen attack, the genetic control of host-pathogen interactions.
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The Renaissance of α‐Methylene‐γ‐butyrolactones: New Synthetic Approaches
TL;DR: Traditional approaches to alpha-methylene-Gamma-butyrolactones and alpha-alkylidene-gamma- butyrolActones are reviewed together with novel approaches, including those from the own research group, reported more recently.
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Biological activities of sesquiterpene lactones
TL;DR: A review of the present state of knowledge on the biological activities and mechanism of action of some sesquiterpene lactones highlighted in Compositae and other angiosperm families and even in some liverworts.
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Tumor inhibitors. 69. Structure-cytotoxicity relationships among the sesquiterpene lactones.
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Sesquiterpene lactones as taxonomic characters in the asteraceae
TL;DR: The tribal, subtribal and generic distribution of sesquiterpene lactones is examined, the compounds’ utility as taxonomic characters discussed and the biogenetically based methodology shows the efficacy of this analytical methodology.