Solidago species

For catarrhal conditions, combine either the berries or blossoms with goldenrod (Solidago species), boneset and wild indigo (Baptisia tinctoria). 

Diterpenoids as Insect Antifeedants and Growth Inhibitors Role in Solidago Species... 

Solldago is a mostly North American genus of about 125 species. It belongs to the Asteraceae (Compositae), a family with a very distinctive chemistry (57, 58). The genus itself contains several different classes of secondary compounds including a number of diterpenes (59). During the 1960 s and 1970 s Anthonsen in Finland, and McCrindle and his coworkers in Canada, isolated about twenty-five different compounds from the roots of Solidago species, mainly clerodanes and labdanes. But in the last five years attention has turned to the aerial parts of the plant and compounds of several other classes of diterpenes, abietanes and kauranes, have been isolated (60-79) (Table II). 

In the group of bioflavonoids, there is rutin (=rutoside), which occurs in Fagopyrum (Buckwheat), Eucalyptus and Solidago species and in the flowers of Sophorajaponica. 

B Solidago species contain ester saponins (Virgaurea saponin). Alkaline hydrolysis of the methanolic extract and detection with AS reagent yields five to six blue-violet zones (e.g. polygalic add) in the R, range 0.4-0.9. 

Cooper-Driver, G. A. and P. W. Le Quesne, Diterpenoids as insect antifeedants and growth inhibitors Role in Solidago species, in Allelochemicals Role in agriculture and forestiy (G. R. Waller, ed.), ACS Symposium Series 330,534-550, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1987. 

Goodwin RH (1937) The role of auxin in leaf development in Solidago species. Am JBot 24 43-51... 

McCrindle R, Nakamura E, Anderson A B 1976 Constituents of Solidago species. Part VII. Constitution and stereochemistry of the c/5-clerodanes from Solidago arguta Ait. and of related diterpenoids. J Chem Soc Perkin Trans I 1590-1597... 

Anthonsen, T., and G. Bergland The diterpenoids of some Solidago species. Acta Chem. Scand. 25, 1924 (1971). 

Anthonsen, T., M.S. Henderson, A. Martin, R.D.H. Murray, R. McCrindle, and D. McMaster Constituents of Solidago species. Part IV. Solidagoic acids... 

Bohlmann, F., T. Chau-Thi, P. Singh, and J. Jakupovic Alicyclic diterpenes from Solidago species. Planta Med. 1985, 487 (1985). 

Bohlmann, F., U. Fritz, H. Robinson, and R.M. King Sesquiterpene and diterpene derivatives from Solidago species. Phytochem. 19, 2655 (1980). 

Le Quesne, P.W., G.A. Cooper-Driver, M. Villani, M.N. Do, P.A. Morrow, and D.A. Tonkin Biologically active diterpenes from Solidago species. Page 271 in A. Rahman and P. W. Le Quesne (eds.). New Trends in Natural Products Chemistry. Studies in Organic Chemistry, Vol. 26. Elsevier Scientific Publishers. Amsterdam (1986). 

McCrindle, R., and E. Nakamura Constituents of Solidago species. Part VI. The constitution of diterpenoids from a chemically distinct variety of Solidago serotina. Can. J. Chem 52, 2029 (1974). 

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