Pharmaphylogenetic study on isopyroideae (Ranunculaceae) / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the pharmaphylogenetic of medicinal plants of Isopyroideae (Ranunculaceae).</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Comprehensively analyze the correlation between phylogeny, chemical constituents and pharmaceutical aspects of Isopyroideae plants, based on chemical, pharmaceutical (both ethnopharmacologic and pharmacological) information, linking with different plant systems of Ranunculaceae.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Plants from Aquilegia mainly contain flavonoids constituents while the major chemical constituents of Isopyrum are bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloids. Chemical characteristics also support that this taxon should be separated from Thalictrodeae, and constituted an independent subfamily, namely, Isopyroideae.</p>