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Alkaloid Profile in Wild Autumn-Flowering Daffodils and Their Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitory Activity

Molecules, 2023
Amaryllidaceae alkaloids are secondary metabolites with interesting medicinal properties. Almost every Narcissus species can synthesize them and constitute an excellent source for their isolation and study.
Julia Lisa-Molina, Pedro Gómez-Murillo, Irene Arellano-Martín, Carles Jiménez, María L. Rodríguez-Escobar, Luciana R. Tallini, Francesc Viladomat, Laura Torras-Claveria, Jaume Bastida   +8 more
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Comparative Plastome Analysis of Three Amaryllidaceae Subfamilies: Insights into Variation of Genome Characteristics, Phylogeny, and Adaptive Evolution

BioMed Research International, 2022
In the latest APG IV classification system, Amaryllidaceae is placed under the order of Asparagus and includes three subfamilies: Agapanthoideae, Allioideae, and Amaryllidoideae, which include many economically important crops.
Ruimin Cheng, D. Xie, Xiang-Yi Zhang, Xiao Fu, Xingjin He, Songdong Zhou   +5 more
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Acetylcholinesterase-inhibiting Alkaloids from Zephyranthes concolor

Molecules, 2011
The bulbs and aerial parts of Zephyranthes concolor (Lindl.) Benth. & Hook. f. (Amaryllidaceae), an endemic species to Mexico, were found to contain the alkaloids chlidanthine, galanthamine, galanthamine N-oxide, lycorine, galwesine, and ...
Sebastien Arseneau, Carles Codina, Jaume Bastida, Francesc Viladomat, José A. Esté, Imma Clotet-Codina, Christopher K. Jankowski, Simón Hernández-Ortega, Strahil Berkov, Ricardo Reyes-Chilpa   +9 more
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Advances in the Chemical and Biological Characterization of Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids and Natural Analogues Isolated in the Last Decade

Molecules, 2020
Amaryllidaceae are bulbous wild and cultivated plants well known for their beautiful flowers and pharmaceutical applications, essentially due to the alkaloids and flavonoids content.
Marco Masi, Roberta Di Lecce, Alessio Cimmino, Antonio Evidente   +3 more
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Gene Loss, Pseudogenization in Plastomes of Genus Allium (Amaryllidaceae), and Putative Selection for Adaptation to Environmental Conditions

Frontiers in Genetics, 2021
Amaryllidaceae is a large family with more than 1,600 species, belonging to 75 genera. The largest genus—Allium—is vast, comprising about a thousand species.
V. A. Scobeyeva, I. Artyushin, A. Krinitsina, P. Nikitin, M. Antipin, Sergei V. Kuptsov, M. Belenikin, D. Omelchenko, M. Logacheva, E. A. Konorov, Andrey E. Samoilov, A. Speranskaya   +11 more
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Recent Progress in Amaryllidaceae Biotechnology

Molecules, 2020
Plants belonging to the monocotyledonous Amaryllidaceae family include about 1100 species divided among 75 genera. They are well known as medicinal and ornamental plants, producing pharmaceutically important alkaloids, the most intensively investigated ...
Vasil Georgiev, Ivan Ivanov, Atanas Pavlov   +2 more
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Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids from Clivia miniata (Lindl.) Bosse (Amaryllidaceae): Isolation, Structural Elucidation, and Biological Activity

Plants, 2022
Clivia miniata (Amaryllidaceae) is an herbaceous evergreen flowering plant that is endemic to South Africa and Swaziland and belongs to one of the top-10 traded medicinal plants in informal medicine markets in South Africa.
M. Safratova, J. Křoustková, N. Maafi, Daniela Suchánková, R. Vrabec, J. Chlebek, J. Kuneš, L. Opletal, F. Bucar, L. Cahlíková   +9 more
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Intrapopulational chromosome number variation in Zephyranthes sylvatica Baker (Amaryllidaceae: Hippeastreae) from northeast Brazil. [PDF]

, 2019
Zephyranthes Herb. is a taxonomically complex and cytologically variable group, withabout 65 species of Neotropical distribution. Chromosome number variability in 32 individuals of a Zephyranthes sylvaticapopulation from Northeast Brazil was investigated.
DUTILH, J. H. A., FELIX, W. J. P., FERNANDES, A. A., FÉLIX, L. P., MELO, N. F. de   +4 more
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Biodiversity, Ecology, and Secondary Metabolites Production of Endophytic Fungi Associated with Amaryllidaceae Crops

Agriculture, 2020
Amaryllidaceae family comprises many crops of high market potential for the food and pharmaceutical industries. Nowadays, the utilization of plants as a source of bioactive compounds requires the plant/endophytic microbiome interactions, which affect all
Gianluca Caruso, Nadezhda Golubkina, Alessio Tallarita, Magdi T. Abdelhamid, Agnieszka Sekara   +4 more
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Recent Progress on Biological Activity of Amaryllidaceae and Further Isoquinoline Alkaloids in Connection with Alzheimer’s Disease

Molecules, 2021
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive age-related neurodegenerative disease recognized as the most common form of dementia among elderly people. Due to the fact that the exact pathogenesis of AD still remains to be fully elucidated, the treatment is ...
L. Cahlíková, R. Vrabec, Filip Pidaný, R. Peřinová, N. Maafi, A. Mamun, A. Ritomská, Viriyanata Wijaya, G. Blunden   +8 more
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