Cyanogenic glycosides can function as nitrogen reservoir for flax plants cultured under N-deficient conditions

The Biosynthesis of Cyanogenic Glycosides in Higher Plants

An enzyme which catalyzes the transfer of glucose from UDP-glucose to a-hydroxyisobutyronitrile (acetone cyanohydrin) has been isolated from flax seedlings (Zinum usifafissimum L). The product of this reaction was shown to be identical with linamarin, one of the two cyanogenic glucosides produced by the flax plant. The partially purified UDP-glucose-ketone cyanohydrm /3-glucosyltransferase exhi...

Cyanogenic Glycosides in Plant Foods

Cyanogenic and non-cyanogenic glycosides from Manihot esculenta.

In addition to lotaustralin and linamarin, a novel cyanogenic glycoside, 2-((6-O-(beta-D-apiofuranosyl)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)oxy)-2-met hylbutanenitrile , two novel non-cyanogenic glycosides, (2S)-((6-O-(beta-D-apiofuranosyl)-beta-D- glucopyranosyl)oxy)butane and 2-((6-O-(beta-D-apiofuranosyl)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)oxy)propane, and a simple non-cyanogenic glycoside, ethyl beta-D-glucopyranosid...

Processing Techniques for Reduction of Cyanogenic Glycosides from Bamboo Shoots

Bamboo shoots have a long history of its utilization as food and medicine and are rich in nutrient components such as proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and bioactive compounds. Due to presence of bioactive compounds phenols, phytosterols and dietary fibres, they play a vital role in health promotion as well as prevention of cardiovascular, cancer and chronic diseases. But, due to pres...

Allocation of nitrogen to chemical defence and plant functional traits is constrained by soil N.

Plants have evolved a vast array of defence mechanisms to avoid or minimize damage caused by herbivores and pathogens. The costs and benefits of defences are thought to vary with the availability of resources, herbivore pressure and plant functional traits. We investigated the resource (nitrogen) and growth cost of deploying cyanogenic glycosides in seedlings of Eucalyptus cladocalyx (Myrtaceae...