Flavonoids pelargonidin

FIGURE 13.4 Typical structures for main classes of flavonoids naringin chalcone, 4,6,4 -trihydroxyaurone, apigenin (flavone), and pelargonidin (anthocyanidin). 

Hamalainen M, Nieminen R, Vuorela P, Heinonen M and Moilanen E. 2007. Anti-inflammatory effects of flavonoids genistein, kaempferol, quercetin and daidzein inhibit STAT-1 and NF-kB activations whereas flavones, isorhamnetin, naringenins, and pelargonidin inhibit only NF-kB activation along with their inhibitory effect on iNOS expression and NO production in activated macrophagues. Mediators Inflamm 2007 45673. 

FIGURE 3.2 General phenylpropanoid and flavonoid bios5mthetic pathways. The B-ring hydroxylation steps are not shown. For formation of anthocyanins from leucoanthocyanidins two routes are represented a simplified scheme via the anthocyanidin (pelargonidin) and the likely in vivo route via the pseudobase. Enzyme abbreviations are defined in the text and in Table 3.1. 

Schwinn, K.E., Markham, K.E., and Given, N.K., Floral flavonoids and the potential for pelargonidin biosynthesis in commercial chrysanthemum cultivars. Phytochemistry, 35, 145, 1994. 

Parasitic plants often use chemicals released by their host plant to stimulate seed germination, to locate the host, or for haustorial development. Many different compounds are involved, including strigolactones, quinones, coumarins, flavonoids, and other phenolics. Flavonoids contribute to signaling in some species but not others. Haustorial development in Triphysaria versicolor can be induced in vitro by the anthocyanidins petunidin, cyanidin, pelargonidin, delphinidin, as well as their glycosides obtained from the host plant.Anthocyanins are not usually found in root exudates, however, and thus the mechanism by which they affect natural signals for parasitic plants in the soil is not clear. 

Anthocyanins and anthocyanids are usually separated on microcrystalline cellulose. Andersen and Francis (1985) were able to separate flavonoids on cellulose in the mobile-phase HCl-formic acid-water (24.9 23.7 51.4). The Rf values obtained were 0.03 for delphinidin, 0.06 for cyanidin, 0.11 for pelargonidin, 0.26 for cyanidin 3-glucoside, 0.48 for cyanidin 3-rutinoside, and 0.95 for pelar-goniden 3-sophoroside-5-glucoside. 

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