Chemotaxonomic value of anthocyanins in Podalyria and Virgilia (tribe Podalyrieae: Fabaceae)

Ben Erik Van Wyk; Pieter J.D. Winter

doi:10.1016/0305-1978(94)90085-X

Chemotaxonomic value of anthocyanins in Podalyria and Virgilia (tribe Podalyrieae: Fabaceae)

Ben Erik Van Wyk, Pieter J.D. Winter

Botany and Plant Biotechnology

University of Johannesburg

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Abstract

Anthocyanin pigments responsible for purple and pink flower colours in the tribe Podalyrieae have been identified. The considerable variation in flower colour is not reflected in the chemical variation and the flower pigments are surprisingly conservative. Virgilia flowers always have the acetic acid esters of cyanidin-3-glucoside and peonidin-3-glucoside as major compounds, together with trace amounts of the coumaroyl ester of cyanidin-3-glucoside. Podalyria flowers invariably have the rather more stable coumaroyl ester of cyanidin. The data support a close affinity between the two genera but also show that flower colour is only partially homologous.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	813-818
Number of pages	6
Journal	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
Volume	22
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-1978(94)90085-X
Publication status	Published - Dec 1994

Keywords

Fabaceae
Podalyria
Virgilia
anthocyanins
chemotaxonomy
generic relationships

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Biochemistry

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Chemotaxonomic value of anthocyanins in Podalyria and Virgilia (tribe Podalyrieae: Fabaceae)

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