Abstract
The genus Quassia belongs to the Simaroubaceae, which contains 32 genera and 170 species. Most of the family members are trees or shrubby species, and the wood from some of these has been used for some time in traditional medicine. The Simaroubaceae are known to produce a wide range of biologically active compounds. Tryptophan-derived alkaloids, β-carbolines (Barbetti et al. 1987, 1990), canthinones, and triterpenes from quassinoids (Simao et al. 1991) are found only in Simaroubaceae.
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Scragg, A.H., Allan, E.J. (1994). Quassia amara (Surinam Quassia): In Vitro Culture and the Production of Quassin. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants VI. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57970-7_21
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