STEROIDAL SAPOGENINS 171 BIOGENESIS OF THE STEROIDAL SAPOGENINS IN AGAVES MANFREDA AND HESAN LUIS POTOSIERALOE

MARKER, RE; LOPEZ, J

doi:DOI: 10.1021/ja01202a047

STEROIDAL SAPOGENINS 171 BIOGENESIS OF THE STEROIDAL SAPOGENINS IN AGAVES MANFREDA AND HESAN LUIS POTOSIERALOE

Date

1947

Authors

MARKER, RE

LOPEZ, J

Publisher

BOTANICA-MEX S. A, TEXCOCO, EM, MEX
HOTEL GENOVA, CD. MEXICO, DF, MEX

Abstract

Young plants of Agave atrovirens, Agave bracteosa, Agave endlichiana, Agave stricta, Agave mitraeformis, Manfreda gigantea and Hesperaloe funifera gave only manogenin as their steroidal sapogenin. When the plants reached maturity this was converted into h