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Carnivorous Plants from Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae as a Source of Secondary Metabolites

Carnivorous plants are able to attract small animals or protozoa and retain them in their specialized traps. Later, the captured organisms are killed and digested. The nutrients contained in the prey bodies are absorbed by the plants to use for growth and reproduction. These plants produce many seco...

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Autores principales: Wójciak, Magdalena, Feldo, Marcin, Stolarczyk, Piotr, Płachno, Bartosz J.
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10004607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36903400
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28052155
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author Wójciak, Magdalena
Feldo, Marcin
Stolarczyk, Piotr
Płachno, Bartosz J.
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Feldo, Marcin
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Płachno, Bartosz J.
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description Carnivorous plants are able to attract small animals or protozoa and retain them in their specialized traps. Later, the captured organisms are killed and digested. The nutrients contained in the prey bodies are absorbed by the plants to use for growth and reproduction. These plants produce many secondary metabolites involved in the carnivorous syndrome. The main purpose of this review was to provide an overview of the secondary metabolites in the family Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae, which were studied using modern identification techniques, i.e., high-performance liquid chromatography or ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. After literature screening, there is no doubt that tissues of species from the genera Nepenthes, Drosera, and Dionaea are rich sources of secondary metabolites that can be used in pharmacy and for medical purposes. The main types of the identified compounds include phenolic acids and their derivatives (gallic, protocatechuic, chlorogenic, ferulic, p-coumaric acids, gallic, hydroxybenzoic, vanillic, syringic caffeic acids, and vanillin), flavonoids (myricetin, quercetin, and kaempferol derivatives), including anthocyanins (delphinidin-3-O-glucoside, cyanidin-3-O-glucoside, and cyanidin), naphthoquinones (e.g., plumbagin, droserone, and 5-O-methyl droserone), and volatile organic compounds. Due to the biological activity of most of these substances, the importance of the carnivorous plant as a pharmaceutical crop will increase.
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spelling pubmed-100046072023-03-11 Carnivorous Plants from Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae as a Source of Secondary Metabolites Wójciak, Magdalena Feldo, Marcin Stolarczyk, Piotr Płachno, Bartosz J. Molecules Review Carnivorous plants are able to attract small animals or protozoa and retain them in their specialized traps. Later, the captured organisms are killed and digested. The nutrients contained in the prey bodies are absorbed by the plants to use for growth and reproduction. These plants produce many secondary metabolites involved in the carnivorous syndrome. The main purpose of this review was to provide an overview of the secondary metabolites in the family Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae, which were studied using modern identification techniques, i.e., high-performance liquid chromatography or ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. After literature screening, there is no doubt that tissues of species from the genera Nepenthes, Drosera, and Dionaea are rich sources of secondary metabolites that can be used in pharmacy and for medical purposes. The main types of the identified compounds include phenolic acids and their derivatives (gallic, protocatechuic, chlorogenic, ferulic, p-coumaric acids, gallic, hydroxybenzoic, vanillic, syringic caffeic acids, and vanillin), flavonoids (myricetin, quercetin, and kaempferol derivatives), including anthocyanins (delphinidin-3-O-glucoside, cyanidin-3-O-glucoside, and cyanidin), naphthoquinones (e.g., plumbagin, droserone, and 5-O-methyl droserone), and volatile organic compounds. Due to the biological activity of most of these substances, the importance of the carnivorous plant as a pharmaceutical crop will increase. MDPI 2023-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10004607/ /pubmed/36903400 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28052155 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wójciak, Magdalena
Feldo, Marcin
Stolarczyk, Piotr
Płachno, Bartosz J.
Carnivorous Plants from Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae as a Source of Secondary Metabolites
title Carnivorous Plants from Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae as a Source of Secondary Metabolites
title_full Carnivorous Plants from Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae as a Source of Secondary Metabolites
title_fullStr Carnivorous Plants from Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae as a Source of Secondary Metabolites
title_full_unstemmed Carnivorous Plants from Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae as a Source of Secondary Metabolites
title_short Carnivorous Plants from Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae as a Source of Secondary Metabolites
title_sort carnivorous plants from nepenthaceae and droseraceae as a source of secondary metabolites
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10004607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36903400
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28052155
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