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SUBMITTER: Ferreira MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6155815 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Ferreira Mariana C MC Cantrell Charles L CL Duke Stephen O SO Ali Abbas A Rosa Luiz H LH
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20170121 1
<i>Vellozia gigantea</i> is a rare, ancient, and endemic neotropical plant present in the Brazilian Rupestrian grasslands. The dichloromethane extract of <i>V. gigantea</i> adventitious roots was phytotoxic against <i>Lactuca sativa</i>, <i>Agrostis stolonifera</i>, and <i>Lemna paucicostata</i>, and showed larvicidal activity against <i>Aedes aegypti</i>. Phytotoxicity bioassay-directed fractionation of the extract revealed one new isopimaradiene, 8(9),15-isopimaradien-1,3,7,11-tetraone, and th ...[more]