Abstract
Thermopsis lupinoides Link., Japanese name Sendai-hagi (Fig. 1) belongs to the family Leguminosae and is distributed in North America, the east coast of Siberia, Korea, and Japan. The aerial parts and seeds (Chinese name for medicinal use ye jue ming) are used as a crude drug as antiphlogestic, expectorant, and emetic in China (Jiang su xin yi xue yuan 1977). This plant is a rich source of lupin alkaloids (Mears and Mabry 1971). Nine alkaloids have been isolated from several organs of this plant (Ohmiya et al. 1984, Saito et al. 1988, 1989a). These studies revealed that T. lupinoides interestingly contains both (+)-lupanine[1]-type and (−)-anagyrine[2]-type alkaloid (Fig. 2). These two types of alkaloids have configurations absolutely opposite to each other. Thus it was suggested that T. lupinoides has the biosynthetic ability for alkaloids of both enantiomeric configurations (Saito et al. 1988).
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Yamazaki, M., Murakoshi, I., Saito, K. (1994). Thermopsis lupinoides (Japanese Name‘Sendai-hagi’): In Vitro Culture and the Production of Lupin Alkaloids. 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_25
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