Salsola richteri

Salsola Richteri, alkaloids, 159 Salsolidine, 159, 160 Salsoline, 158, 159, 161 Sanguinaria canadensis, alkaloids, 173 277, 283... 

Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum (Cactaceae) aps 15,127 78 Salsola arbuscula (Chenopodiaceae) ber 67,878 34 Salsola kali (Chenopodiaceae) book 6 Salsola pestifera (Chenopodiaceae) iant 2, 86 85 Salsola richteri (Chenopodiaceae) rr 16, 86 80... 

Reports that boron deficiency increased nicotine production (436, 437) could not be confirmed in the writer s laboratory (Scholz, unpublished). Boron deficiency in Salsola richteri (190) and in Atropa (438) seemed to decrease alkaloid formation. There is a report that extra manganese and cobalt lead to increased alkaloid yields in Datura (439). 

Salsolidine occurs in Salsola richteri (Chenopodia-ceae). It exhibits antihypertensive activity. Lophophorine (N-methylanhalonine) is the most poisonous member of this group LD50 (rabbit i.v.) 15-20 mg/kg, physiological action, see mescaline. Anhalonidine is also highly toxic. 

Obata-Sasamoto H, Komamine A (1981) Biosynthesis of 3-carboxy>67,-dihydroxy-l,2,3,4-tetra-hydroisoquinoline in a callus culture of Stizolobium hassjoo. Z Naturforsch 36 921-924 Ordaz C, Ferrigni NR, McLaughlin JL (1983) Dehydroheliamine, a trace alkaloid from the saguaro, Camegia gigantea (Cactaceae). Phytochemistry 22 2101-2102 Orekhov A, Proskurnina N (1934) Alkaloids of Salsola richteri II. Constitution of salsoline. Ber 67B 878-884... 

Comparatively few simple isoquinoline alkaloids have been found to occur naturally. Until now such compounds have been encountered in three or four species of the Cactaceae, in a Chenopodiaceae [Salsola arbuscula Pall. (S. richteri Karel)], in three species belonging to the family of the Fumari-aceae [Corydalis pallida (Thunb.) Pers.,C. awrea Willd., C. tvherosa DC.] and in one Papaveraceae Papaver somniferum L.). While no doubt exists as to the native occurrence of the anhalonium and salsola isoquinolines, hy-drohydrastinine and hydrocotarnine may have been artifacts from the benzylisoquinoline alkaloids of Corydalis tuberosa and Papaver somniferum. 

Salsoline and salsolidine (0-methylsalsoline) have been found by Orekhov and Proskurnina (32-35, 36, 37) in the desert plant Salsola arbuscula (S. richteri) belonging to the family Chenopodiaceae. A third alkaloid, of unknown constitution (salsamine), occurs in traces in the drug. 

Konovalova, Platonova and Konovalova (53), isolated salsoline and salsolidine from infusions of Salsola arbuscula (S. richteri) by adsorption on bentonite. 

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