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Aucubin is an iridoid glycoside.[1] Iridoids are commonly found in plants and function as defensive compounds.[1] Iridoids decrease the growth rates of many generalist herbivores.[2]
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Aucubin is an iridoid glycoside. Iridoids are commonly found in plants and function as defensive compounds. Iridoids decrease the growth rates of many...
substitute or extender. Plantain contains phytochemicals including allantoin, aucubin, ursolic acid, flavonoids, and asperuloside. Plantain extract has been...
chemical compound found in Vitex agnus-castus. Agnuside is the ester of aucubin and p-hydroxybenzoic acid. Eva Hoberg, Beat Meier and Otto Sticher (September–October...
plantamajoside and isoacteoside. It also contains the iridoid glycosides aucubin and catalpol. These iridoid glycosides make the plant inedible to some...
mammals, iridoids are often characterized by a deterrent bitter taste. Aucubin and catalpol are two of the most common iridoids in the plant kingdom.[citation...
to form the different compounds. These contain an iridoid group; e.g. aucubin, geniposidic acid, theviridoside, loganin, catalpol. As the name contains...
trees). Iridoids derive from monoterpenes. Examples of iridoids include aucubin and catalpol. Sesquiterpenes consist of three isoprene units and have the...
identified as apigenin, 4'-hydroxywogonin, verbenalin, and hastatoside. Aucubin has also been found as one of the active constituents. Tobin, Graeme; Denham...
glycosides may also reflect its role in oviposition and microhabitat selection. Aucubin and catalpol are two other chemicals that can be stimulants and attractants...
occasionally as late as August. The major iridoids of Penstemon teucrioides are aucubin, isoscrophularioside, and trans-eurostoside. They also have minor amounts...
bartsioside. The very widely known and accepted precursor to catalpol, aucubin, is then furnished via hydroxylation at C6. Finally an epoxidation with...
natural grassy meadow ecosystems. The seeds are poisonous because they hold aucubin. The plant is being targeted by some groups for conservation projects and...
Alchemilla species. Larvae and pupae also contain three iridoid glucosides: aucubin, catalpa, and 6-O-glucopyranosylaucubin. Small amounts of these molecules...
infection.[medical citation needed] The active chemical constituents are aucubin (an anti-microbial agent), allantoin (which stimulates cellular growth...