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Secondary Plant Substances: Monoterpenes

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Progress in Botany

Part of the book series: Progress in Botany ((BOTANY,volume 59))

Abstract

The monoterpenes are the C10 representatives of the terpenoid family of natural products and they diverge from higher isoprenoid biosynthesis at the level of geranyl pyrophosphate. The vast majority of the several hundred naturally occuring monoterpenes are cyclic, primarily cyclo-hexanoid, and they represent a relatively small number of skeletal themes multiplied by a very large range of simple derivatives, positional isomers, and stereochemical variants (Figs. 1, 2, Dev et al. 1982; Glasby 1982; Connolly and Hill 1992, Buckingham 1994). The formation of significant quantities of monoterpenes (> 0,1% fresh tissue weight) appears to be confined to some 50 families of higher plants in which the monoterpenes are most familiar as components of the essential oils that are synthesized and accumulated in various tpyes of distinct and highly specialized secretory structures. The chemistry and biochemistry of monoterpenoids is periodically reviewed (Banthorpe and Branch 1985; Croteau 1987; Gershenzon and Croteau 1990; Beale 1991; Grayson 1992, 1994, 1996; Dewick 1995; Chappell 1995; McGarvey and Croteau 1995). The last review in this series was published 12 years ago (Schütte 1984). The monoterpenoids show numerous kinds of ecological interactions (Harborne 1991; Langenheim 1994).

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  2. Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Botanik, Ruhr Universität, D-44780, Bochum, Germany

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Schütte, HR. (1998). Secondary Plant Substances: Monoterpenes. In: Behnke, HD., Esser, K., Kadereit, J.W., Lüttge, U., Runge, M. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany, vol 59. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80446-5_19

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