Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 213, Issue -, Pages 163-168Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.06.069
Keywords
Horizontal transfer of natural products; Pyrrolizidine alkaloids; Plant derived commodities; Contamination; Senecio; Ragwort
Funding
- German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture via the Fachagentur fur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe [95667-002]
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Many plant derived commodities contain traces of toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs). The main source of these contaminations seems to be the accidental co-harvest of PA-containing weeds. Yet, based on the insights of the newly described phenomenon of the horizontal transfer of natural products, it is very likely that the PA-contaminations may also be due to an uptake of the alkaloids from the soil, previously being leached out from rotting PA-plants. The transfer of PAs was investigated using various herbs, which had been mulched with dried plant material from Senecio jacobaea. All of the acceptor plants exhibited marked concentrations of PAs. The extent and the composition of the imported PAs was dependent on the acceptor plant species. These results demonstrate that PAs indeed are leached out from dried Senecio material into the soil and confirm their uptake by the roots of the acceptor plants and the translocation into the leaves. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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