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SUBMITTER: Moser S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7349660 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 20200624 27
In view of the common use of the herb basil (<i>Ocimum basilicum</i>) in nutrition and in phytomedicine, the contents of its leaves are of obvious interest. In extracts of fresh yellowish-green basil leaves, phyllobilins (PBs), which are bilin-type catabolites of chlorophyll (Chl), were detected using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Two such PBs, provisionally named <i>Ob</i>-nonfluorescent chlorophyll catabolite (NCC)-40 and <i>Ob</i>-YCC-45, exhibited previously unknown structur ...[more]