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Secondary Plant Substances: Sesquiterpenes

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Progress in Botany

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Abstract

The sesquiterpenes are the C15 representatives of the terpenoid family of the natural products and they diverge from higher isoprenoid biosynthesis at the level of farnesyl pyrophosphate (Ruzicka 1953). Sesquiterpenes comprise one of the largest and most diverse families of natural products, and they are produced by both lower plants such as fungi and other microorganisms and by higher plants, in which they are best known as a component of the essential oils. Most of the nearly 200 skeletal families of sesquiterpenes derived via cyclization of the ubiquitous C15 isoprenoid intermediate farnesyl pyrophosphate (Fig. 1; Glasby 1982; Conolly and Hill 1992; Buckingham 1994; Gijsen et al. 1995; Gonzalez and Barrera 1995). The chemistry and biochemistry of sesquiterpenoids are periodically reviewed (Pinder 1977; Cane 1981, 1990; Beale 1990a, b, 1991; Fraga 1991, 1995, 1997; Chappell 1995; Dewick 1995, 1997; McGarvey and Croteau 1995).

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Schütte, HR. (1999). Secondary Plant Substances: Sesquiterpenes. In: Esser, K., Kadereit, J.W., Lüttge, U., Runge, M. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany, vol 60. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59940-8_13

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