Celastraceae family insecticidal activity

Products isolated from plants of the Celastraceae family have showed insecticidal and antifeedant activities, as discussed earlier. The compounds reported belong to the agarofuran sesquiterpene-type and sesquiterpene pyridine-type alkaloids. Nevertheless, the only description of insecticidal activity of quinone methides found is from Avilla et al [102], Despite the fact that the compounds assayed were known the... 

In the course of these research programmes, many characteristic bioactive compounds have been reported. Polyester sesquiterpenes and pyridine-sesquiterpene alkaloids with insect antifeedant or insecticidal properties have been isolated from some species and recently sesquiterpene pyridine alkaloids with immunosuppressive or antitumoral activities have also been described. Diterpene triepoxides with potent antileukemic and immunosupressive activities and triterpenoid quinonemethides, named as celastroloids , with antibiotic and cytostatic activities, have been isolated from species of the Celastraceae family. 

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