The Amaryllidaceae alkaloids are a distinctive chemotaxonomic feature of the subfamily
Amaryllidoideae of the family Amaryllidaceae, which consists of 59 genera and> 800 …

Amaryllidaceae alkaloid (AA) biosynthesis has garnered significant attention in recent years,
particularly with the commercialization of galanthamine as a treatment for the symptoms of …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

Phylogenetic research on monocots has been extraordinarily active over the past years.
With the familial interrelationships being sufficiently understood, the question of divergence …

Hyacinthaceae presently consist of approximately 70 genera and 1000 species. To
investigate the monophyly of the family and the generic relationships, we sequenced the …

Analysis of three plastid DNA sequences for a broad sampling of Amaryllidaceae resolve the
American genera of the Amaryllidaceae as a clade that is sister to the Eurasian genera of …

Although a great deal of research on ornamental geophytes has been conducted since the
beginning of the 1990s, current information has not been comprehensively presented to …

Background During evolution, plants and other organisms have developed a diversity of
chemical defences, leading to the evolution of various groups of specialized metabolites …

The present classification of extant flowering plants (Magnoliopsida) updates and revises
those presented previously by bringing together the vast majority of new information …

Twenty known Amaryllidaceae alkaloids of various structural types, and one undescribed
alkaloid of narcikachnine-type, named narcieliine (3), have been isolated from fresh bulbs of …