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Insight into the Impact of Food Processing and Culinary Preparations on the Stability and Content of Plant Alkaloids Considered as Natural Food Contaminants

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids, tropane alkaloids and opium alkaloids are natural plant toxins that have recently gained special interest in food safety due to their concerning occurrence in many foods and feeds.
Natalia Casado   +4 more
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Alkaloid diversity in relation to breeding for specifi c alkaloids in opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.)

open access: yesCzech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 2010
Papaver somniferum is a chief source of diverse physiologically active alkaloids, required by the pharmaceutical industry. The present study describes the diversity of the alkaloid spectrum of 122 opium poppy accessions of Indian origin by means of a ...
Sudhir Shukla   +4 more
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Scientific Opinion on the risks for public health related to the presence of opium alkaloids in poppy seeds

open access: yesEFSA Journal, 2011
Poppy seeds are obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.). They are used in bakery products, on top of dishes, in fillings of cakes and in desserts and to produce edible oil.
EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM)
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Opium alkaloids in Papaver somniferum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
katedra: KCH; rozsah: 83The bachelor thesis deals with opium alkaloids in Papaver somniferum. It describes their chemical structure, effects and use. The aim is to analyze opium alkaloids using by thin-layer chromatography and infrared spectrophotometry ...
Stránská, Adéla
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Role of the phloem in the biochemistry and ecophysiology of benzylisoquinoline alkaloid metabolism

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2013
Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) are a diverse group of biologically active specialized metabolites produced mainly in four plant families. BIA metabolism is likely of monophyletic origin and involves multiple enzymes yielding structurally diverse ...
Eun-Jeong eLee   +2 more
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Anti-protozoal activity of aporphine and protoberberine alkaloids from Annickia kummeriae (Engl. & Diels) Setten & Maas (Annonaceae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
BACKGROUND: Malaria, trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis have an overwhelming impact in the poorest countries in the world due to their prevalence, virulence and drug resistance ability.
Swaleh, S. M.   +35 more
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Content of alkaloids in ornamental Papaver somniferum L. cultivars growing in Estonia; pp. 34–39 [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 2017
The alkaloid content in industrial opium poppies (Papaver somniferum L.) has been studied by numerous authors, but not in ornamental cultivars.The aim of the study was to investigate the content of morphine, codeine, and papaverine in P.
Andres Meos, Liis Saks, Ain Raal
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Benzylisoquinoline alkaloid biosynthesis in opium poppy [PDF]

open access: yesPlanta, 2014
Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) is one of the world's oldest medicinal plants and remains the only commercial source for the narcotic analgesics morphine, codeine and semi-synthetic derivatives such as oxycodone and naltrexone. The plant also produces several other benzylisoquinoline alkaloids with potent pharmacological properties including the ...
Guillaume A W, Beaudoin   +1 more
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Quantitative 1H NMR metabolomics reveals extensive metabolic reprogramming of primary and secondary metabolism in elicitor-treated opium poppy cell cultures

open access: yesBMC Plant Biology, 2008
Background Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) produces a diverse array of bioactive benzylisoquinoline alkaloids and has emerged as a model system to study plant alkaloid metabolism.
Vogel Hans J   +3 more
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