Chamaecyparis pisifera

Abies veitchii Lindley/Shirabe Chamaecyparis obtusa Endlicher/Hinoki Chamaecyparis pisifera S. et Z./Momi Criptomeria japonica D. Don/Sugi ... 

Methyl pisiferic acid (57, Figure 2.47) was first isolated in 1980 by Yatagai and Takahashi from the leaves of a Japanese tree Chamaecyparis pisifera.124 Discovery of its bioactivity as a mite-growth... 

A ring-expansion product, pisiferin (39), related to ferruginol, has been isolated from Chamaecyparis pisifera together with some C-20 oxygenated products. A clcistanthene, spruceanol (40), was obtained from Cunuria spruceana (Euphorbiaceae). 

Maruyama, E., Hosoi, Y., and Ishii, K. (2002) Somatic embryogenesis in Sawara cypress Chamaecyparis pisifera Sieb. et Zucc.) for stable and efficient plant regeneration, propagation and protoplast culture. J. For. Res., 7 23-34. 

Source Chamaecyparis pisifera Endl. Mol. formula C2QH p02 Mol. wt. 302 Solvent CDClo... 

Erdtman H, Vorbriiggen H 1960 Die Chemie der Naturlichen Ordnung Cupressales. XXXII. Uber die Inhaltsstoffe des Kernholzes von Athrotaxis selaginoides Don, Athrotaxis cupressoides Don und Chamaecyparis pisifera Sieb. et Zucc. Acta Chem Scand 14 2161-2168... 

Fukuhara, N. (1978) Meiotic observation in the pollen mother cell of interspecific hybrid between Chamaecyparis obtusa and C, pisifera. J. Jpn. For. Soc., 60 437-441. 

Fukuhara, N. (1989) Fertility in interspecific-crossing between hinoki Chamaecyparis obtusa Endl.) and Sawara (C. pisifera Endl.) and identification of the hybrids. Bulletin of the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 354 1-38. 

Maeta, T. (1982) Effects of gamma-rays irradiation on interspecific hybridization between Chamaecyparis obtusa S. et Z. and C, pisifera S. et Z. Hoshasen Ikusyujo Kenkyu Hokoku 5 1-87 (in Japanese). 

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