Leguminosae

M.p. 234-235 C. Hydrolyses to aspartic acid. L-asparagine can be prepared from lupin seedlings, and DL-asparagine is synthesised from ammonia and maleic anhydride. L-asparagine is very widely distributed in plants, being found in all the Leguminosae and Gramineae, and in many other seeds, roots and buds. 

Leguminosae (legume) Glycine maxMerri// United States, Brazil, People s Repubflc edible oil, animal feed, food. 

Leguminosae (legume) Arachis hjpogaea People s Repubhc of China, India, United food, edible oil, animal feed. 

It has become customary to call the principal members of this group the lupin alkaloids, but in view of their wide distribution in the Papilionaceae, a better title is that suggested above, since they appear to be the characteristic alkaloids of this leguminous sub-family. This is not the only type of alkaloid found in the Leguminosae other types occur, e.g., in Acacia (p. 631), Crotalaria (p. 601), Erythrina (p. 386), Mimosa (p. 4) and Pentaclethra (p. 776). 

Chen, C., Sun, H. and Mizuno, M. 1992. On the genus Euchresta Benn (Leguminosae) with... 

In 1870, Messrs. Allen and Hanburys, pharmacists of London, presented to Berthelot a sample of a manna which had been sent from Lahore by Dr. Burton Brown it was described as an exudation from a spiny bush, Alhagi maurorum, belonging to the Leguminosae. This manna was said to be very abundant in Persia, where it was used as a purgative and even as a food under the name taranjbin. The manna was well known to Avicenna and other writers of the Middle Ages references to them may be found in Von Lippmann s Geschichte des Zuckers, ... 

Copals, sometimes referred to as immature amber, originate from Africa, Asia or central American countries and derive from the Araucariaceae and Leguminosae families. Polymerised communic acid and agathic acid are found as the main compounds in these fossil resins. The extreme hardness of copal results from polymers of resin acids such as ozoic acid, an enantiomer of communic acid that can polymerize and thus enable fossilization [86]. They are still commonly used today for varnishing and protecting wood. 

D-Mannose H H HO HO HOH2 C—C—C—C—C—CHO HO HO H H ovomucoid ivory nuts salep mucilage hemicelluloses seeds of Leguminosae and Lilium Mycobacterium tuberculosis yeasts... 

A systematic investigation of the free amino acids of the Leguminosae led to the isolation of a novel ninhydrin-positive compound from the leaves of Derris elliptica Benth. (Papilionidae) (93). This substance was analyzed as C6H,3N04 (microanalysis and high resolution mass spectrometry) and was shown to be an amino alcohol. The absence of a carbonyl in the 1R, the loss of 31 mass units in the mass spectrum, and a positive periodate cleavage reaction were best embodied into a dihydroxydihydroxymethylpyrrolidine structure. The relative simplicity of the NMR spectra (three peaks in the 13C spectrum four spin-system in the H spectrum) pointed out a symmetrical structure. Inasmuch as the material was optically active ([a]D 56.4, c = 7, H20), meso structures were ruled out, and the 2R, 3R, 4R, 5R relative configuration was retained (93). This structure (53) was further confirmed by an X-ray determination (94). 

We knew Utetheisa to feed on poisonous plants as a larva (Figure 1B). The plants, of the genus Crotalaria (family Leguminosae), were known to contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids (henceforth abbreviated as PAs), intensely bitter compounds potently hepatotoxic to mammals (7). Other species of Utetheisa were known to sequester PAs (8). We found this to be true for U. ornatrix as well. Adult Utetheisa raised on Crotalaria spectabilis, one of the principal foodplants available to the moth in the United States, contain on average about 700 p,g of monocrotaline (1), the principal PA in that plant (9, 10). 

Allen, O.N. Allen, E.K. "The Leguminosae A Source Book of Characteristics, Uses and Nodulation" University of Wisconsin Press, 1981, p. 556-58. 

Cow pea and urd bean, two common legumes are only slightly lower. An excellent review by H. D. Tindall of the leguminosae plants indicates most of their seeds have high protein contents, are directly consumable, and they are easily grown in tropical and subtropical climates (30). 

Kinghom, A.D. and Balandrin, M.F. (1984). Quinolizidine alkaloids of the Leguminosae Structural types, analysis, chemotaxonomy and biological activities, in Pelletier, S.W., Ed., Alkaloids chemical and biological perspectives, John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 105-148. 

Lobeline (3), extracted from Lobelia inflate, interacts with the nicotinic receptor and could also be exploited to influence cholinergic function in AD. Other alkaloids such as sophoramine (4) and cytisine (5), found in members of the Leguminosae, also have nicotinic agonistic properties. ... 

Eysenhardtia platycarpa (family Leguminosae) were evaluated to possess promising antihyperglycemic activity by decreasing glucose level of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats (31 mg/kg of body weight, P< 0.05). 

Ohwi (family Leguminosae) both of them showed a significant in vitro inhibitory effect on advanced glycation end products (AGEPs) with respective IC50 values of 0.53 and 0.19... 

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