Taxonomic significance

Bate-Smith, E. C. 1962. The phenolic constituents of plants and their taxonomic significance. I. Dicotyledons. J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 58 95-173. 

Greinwald, R., Veen, G., van Wyk, B.-E., Witte, L. and Czygan, E.-C. 1989. Distribution and taxonomic significance of major alkaloids in the genus Virgilia. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 17 231-238. 

Prenylflavonoid variation in Humulus lupulus distribution and taxonomic significance of xanthogalenol and 4 -0-methylxanthohumol. Phytochemistry 53 759-775. 

Richardson PM. (1983) The taxonomic significance of C-glycosylxan-thones in flowering plants. Biochem Syst Ecol 11 371-375. 

Hegnauer, R. 1963. The taxonomic significance of alkaloids. In Chemical Plant Taxonomy (Swain, T., ed.), pp. 389-399. New York Academic Press. 

The organismic sources of the metabolites are reported in the charts at the lowest possible taxonomic level (species, genus, family, order, phylum), as required by the distribution of the metabolites at issue. With terrestrial plants the tradition of giving also the family was always followed, although a broader exploration of plants, and the advent of high-sensitivity analytical systems, have rendered the family of scarce taxonomic significance. With few exceptions of highly specific metabolites, the order is the taxonomic rank most representative of the distribution of natural products. 

Wollenweber, E. et al.. Taxonomic significance of flavonoid variation in temperate species of... 

Wollenweber, E., Dorr, M., and Stevens, J.E., A dihydroflavonol with taxonomic significance from the fern Notholaena sulphurea, Z. Naturforsch., 56C, 499, 2001. 

Evolution and taxonomic significance of reproduction in Blattaria. Annual Review of Entomology 15 75-96. 

Kehraus S, Konig GM, Wright AD (2001) New Carbonimidic Dichlorides from the Australian Sponge Ulosa spongia and Their Possible Taxonomic Significance. J Nat Prod 64 939... 

T Kaneda. Iso- and anteiso-fatty acids in bacteria biosynthesis, function and taxonomic significance. Microbiol Rev 55 288-302, 1991. 

Oxford, G. S. Rollinson, D. (eds.) (1983). Protein polymorphism adaptive and taxonomic significance. The Systematics Association Special Volume no. 24. Academic Press London. 

Kennedy EP, Lehninger AL (1949) Oxidation of fatty acids and tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates by isolated rat liver mitochondria. J Biol Chem 179 957-972 Klein R, Conquist A (1967) A consideration of the evolutionary and taxonomic significance of some biochemical, micromorphological and physiological characteristicsm in the Thallophytes. Q Rev Biol 42 105-296... 

Various studies have also been reported on sesquiterpenoid lactones in Xanthium strumarium and Vemonia species,452,453 diterpenoids of Isodon species,454 and triterpenoids in Lycopodium species.455 Analyses of the carotenoids of Medicago species and of berries from a range of sources reinforce previously held views that the distribution of carotenoids in these sources has no taxonomic significance.456,457 Although most higher plants that have been investigated do not retain the capacity to biosynthesize the normal pattern of terpenoids when in tissue culture, it has been reported that Ruta graveolens did retain this ability.458... 

L. Stoloff and P. Silva, An attempt to determine possible taxonomic significance of the properties of water extractable polysaccharides in red algae, Econ. Bot., 11 (1957) 327-330. 

Moore RT Taxonomic significance of septal ultrastmcture in the genus Onnia Karsten (Polyporineae/Hymenochaetaceae). Bot Notiser 1980 133 169-175. 

Hoashi M., Brooks R. R., and Reeves R. D. (1993a) Palladium, platinum and ruthenium in iron meteorites and their taxonomic significance. Chem. Geol. 106, 207-218. 

Marlowe 1. T., Green J. C., Neal A. C., Brassell S. C., Eglinton G., and Course P. A. (1984a) Long chain (n-C37-C39) alkenones in the prymnesiophyceae distribution of alkenones and other lipids and their taxonomic significance. British Phycol. J. 19, 203-216. 

Pipemo D. R. (1985) Phytolith analysis and tropical paleoe-cology production and taxonomic significance of siliceous forms in new world plant domesticates and wild species. Rev. PalaeoboL Palynol. 45, 185-228. 

With the sole exception of the quinolylimidazole alkaloids, all the alkaloids described in this chapter occur exclusively in members of the Rutaceae Price (2) has discussed the taxonomic significance of the distribution of these and other alkaloids within this family. A summary of the chemistry of all the rutaceous alkaloids has been published (3). 

Reviews have appeared on the distribution and systematic significance of alkaloids of the Rutaceae and of the Papaveraceae and on the taxonomic significance of benzyltetrahydroisoquinoline-derived alkaloids in particular. The isolation of alkaloids from plants in the Soviet Union has been discussed. In addition to continued alkaloid screening studies, surveys encompassing detection of alkaloids have been carried out on plants from Argentina, India, and Morelos State, Mexico. ... 

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