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  3. Nematocidal flavone-C-glycosides against the root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) from Arisaema erubescens tubers

Nematocidal flavone-C-glycosides against the root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) from Arisaema erubescens tubers

  • Molecules. 2011 Jun 20;16(6):5079-86. doi: 10.3390/molecules16065079.
Shu Shan Du 1,  Hai Ming Zhang,  Chun Qi Bai,  Cheng Fang Wang,  Qi Zhi Liu,  Zhi Long Liu,  Yong Yan Wang,  Zhi Wei Deng
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  • 1 State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. [email protected]
PMID: 21694672 DOI: 10.3390/molecules16065079
Abstract

A screening of several Chinese medicinal herbs for nematicidal properties showed that Arisaema erubescens (Wall.) Schott tubers possessed significant nematicidal activity against the root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita). From the ethanol extract, two nematicidal flavone-C-glycosides were isolated by bioassay-guided fractionation. The compounds were identified as schaftoside and isoschaftoside on the basis of their phytochemical and spectral data. Schaftoside and isoschaftoside possessed strong nematicidal activity against M. incognita (LC(50) = 114.66 μg/mL and 323.09 μg/mL, respectively) while the crude extract of A. erubescens exhibited nematicidal activity against the root-knot nematode with a LC(50) value of 258.11 μg/mL.

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