Journal
BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 9, Pages 813-824Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-1978(99)00123-4
Keywords
Eucalyptus; phloroglucinol; aldehyde; euglobal; macrocarpal; sideroxylonal; poymorphism marsupial
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Formylated phloroglucinol compounds (FPCs) in Eucalyptus leaves are important determinants of feeding in marsupial folivores and have a wide range of other biological actions. We conducted a survey of the occurrence of formylated phloroglucinol compounds (euglobals, macrocarpals and sideroxylonals) in acetone-petrol extracts of 41 species of Eucalyptus from among seven informal subgenera growing on the East Coast of Australia. We used electrospray ionisation, Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (ESI-FTMS) to search crude extracts of eucalypt leaves for molecular weights characteristic of FPC compounds. We found masses characteristic of reported FPCs in 27 of the 41 species examined. The most-frequently identified group of compounds was the sideroxylonals. Notable was the lack of known FPCs in the informal subgenus Monocalyptus. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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