Sakuranin is a
flavanone
The flavanones, a type of flavonoids, are various aromatic, colorless ketones derived from flavone that often occur in plants as glycosides.
List of flavanones
* Blumeatin
* Butin
* Eriodictyol
* Hesperetin
* Hesperidin
* Homoeriodictyol
* ...
, a type of flavonoid. It is the ''O''-
glucoside of
sakuranetin
Sakuranetin is a flavan-on, the 7-methoxy derivative of naringenin, found in Polymnia fruticosa and rice, where it acts as a phytoalexin against spore germination of '' Pyricularia oryzae''.
Glycosides
Sakuranin is the 5-O- glucoside of sakura ...
. It can be found in ''
Prunus
''Prunus'' is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes (among many others) the fruits plums, Cherry, cherries, peaches, Peach#Nectarine, nectarines, apricots, and almonds.
Native to the North American temperate regions, the neotropics of Sou ...
sp.''
[Flavonoids of Various Prunus Species. IV. The Flavonoids in the Wood of Prunus donarium var. spontanea. Masao Hasegawa and Teruo Shirato, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1955, 77 (13), pages 3557–3558, ]
References
External links
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O-methylated flavanones
Flavanone glycosides
Phenol glucosides
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