Cicer pinnatifidum

Fig. 2.15 Isoflavonoid chemistry of the genus Cicer indicating those species (bold type) producing isoflav-3-enes and a 2-arylbenzofuran. (a) Clade III as defined in a molecular phylogenetic analysis of chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences in Cicer (Javadi et al, 2007). (b) Species placed in series Cicer and Pinnatifida in the recent infrageneric classification of Cicer by Davies et al. (2007). (c) Predicted biosynthetic pathways leading to the formation of isoflav-3-enes and a 2-arylbenzofuran in Cicer bijugum, Cicer judaicum, and Cicer pinnatifidum. Maackiain is found in all species of series Cicer and Pinnatifida sensu Davies et al. (2007), and medicagol in Cicer arietinum and all species of series Pinnatifida.

Compounds 25 and 26 have also been detected in many other species of Cicer, notably C. anatolicum, C. bijugum, C. chorassanicum, C. cuneatum, C. echinospermum, C. judaicum, C. macranthum, C. montbretii, C. pinnatifidum, C. pungens, C. rechingeri, C. reticulatum, C. songaricum and C. yamashitae [3] and later in C. canariensis, C. 

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