supported by the Top-notch Young Talents Project of Yunnan Province(YNWR-QNBJ-2019-203);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32470394);the Key Basic Research Programof Yunnan Province(202201AS070057,202101BC070003,and 202103AC100003).
Evolutionary transitions from sexual to asexual reproduction should have significant influences on genetic divergence and polymorphism at the genome level.Plant lineages with diverse reproductive systems provide oppor...
The aim of this research was to find and assay phytochemical compounds and various biological macromolecules of the tender stems of Dioscorea praehensilis benth and evaluate their antioxidant activity and to compare t...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81072806,and No.81373500);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(No.S2012010009277);Traditional Chinese Medicine Bureau of Guangdong Province(No.20141046)
The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of total saponins of Dioscorea(TSD), an extract of the Chinese herbal Bi Xie, on hyperuricemia and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. The rat hyperuricemia mode...
Yam is an important staple cash crop, which constitutes 53% of total root and tuber consumption in West Africa. It is a cheap source of carbohydrate in the diets of millions of people worldwide and in tropical West Af...
Financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.21072184,30973634 and 81173536)
Two novel 27-norergostanol steroids, panthogenins A (1) and B (2), possessing unusual rings E and F featuring a ketal moiety at C-25 were isolated from rhizomes ofDioscorea panthaica. Their structures and relative...
supported by the Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Project of Jiangsu Province(No.BA2010144);the scientific and technological major special project for "Significant Creation of New Drugs"(No.2012ZX09101231)
AIM: To investigate the chemical constituents of Dioscorea zingiberensis C. H. Wright. METHODS: The compounds were isolated by various chromatographic techniques, and the structures of the new steroidal saponins were ...
funded by the Key Project of the Chinese Academy of Science (KSCX2-YW-Z-0904);National Natural Science Foundation of China (30670131);Yunnan Provincial Natural Science Foundation (2006C0055M)to Ling Zhang;Laboratory equipment for phylogenetic analyses was provided by the State Key Basic Research and Development Plan of China (973, 2008GA001) to De-Zhu Li
Most species in the genus Tacca (Dioscoreaceae) feature green to black purple, conspicuous inflorescence involucral bracts with variable shapes, motile filiform appendages (bracteoles), and diverse types of inflor...
O-a-D-Glucopyranosyl-furost-5(6),20(22)-dien-3a,26-diol 1, a new furostanol saponin, was isolated from the water-extract of Dioscorea nipponica Mak., the raw material of a traditional Chinese herbal medicine Wei Ao Xi...