Pyrrolizidine alkaloids: evidence for the involvement of spermidine and spermine in the biosynthesis of retronecine
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 3,p. 120-121
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39790000120
Abstract
Putrescine, spermidine, and spermine are efficient precursors of retronecine in Senecio isatideus plants; degradations of labelled alkaloids indicate that a symmetrical intermediate of the type C4–N–C4 is involved in the biosynthesis.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: