Importància biològica dels alcaloides per a les plantes

Autors/ores

  • Carles Codina Mahrer
  • Francesc Viladomat

Resum

In contrast with animals, plants respond to their environment by sinthesising a large array of secondary compounds with very different chemical properties and uses. The most interesting group of natural products is alkaloids, of wich about six thousand are well known and have been found to be distributed among many plant families. The roles of alkaloids in plant metabolism or plant physiology are supposed to be growth regulators, storage reservoirs of nitrogen, end products of metabolism or waste products, or plant-protecting agents toward parasites and competitors or against attack by predators.

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Publicat

2005-05-04