supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31470307);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi,China(Grant No.20212BAB215008);the Science and Technology Project of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education(Grant No.GJJ200410).
Resolving the infrageneric classification of species-rich genera has been challenging in plant taxonomy.Ilex L.is a subcosmopolitan genus with over 600 species of dioecious trees and shrubs.Many classification systems...
supported by the National Council for Scientifi c and Technological Development(CNPq)and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel(CAPES)of Brazil for scholarships.
As the energizing and therapeutic effects of infusions of mate(Ilex paraguariensis A.St.-Hil)leaves are increasingly recognized,rising global consumption is also increasing the demand for plantlets with high genetic a...
This work was supported by grants from the CAS"Light of West China"Program(Y9XB071B01)to X.Y.,the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41901067)to X.Y.,the CAS 135 program(2017XTBG-T03)to X.Y.,and the 1000 Talents Program(WQ20110491035)to R.T.C.We acknowledge the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species,Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences,for DNA extraction and sequencing,and we wish to thank Tao Su,Yan Wang,Tristan Charles-Dominique,Uriel Gelin,Wenbin Yu,Mohammed Armani,and Zhiqiang Lu for useful discussions.We also thank Yaowu Xing for advice on fossil selection and phylogeny calibration.We are grateful to Xuejun Ge,Bing'e Xue,Yansong Peng,Shudong Zhang,Bing Liu,Jian Huang,Lei Jiang,Jianwu Li,Hongbo Ding,Sijin Zeng,and Haitao Li for providing samples.We also acknowledge the Herbarium of Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences(PE),the Herbarium of Kunming Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences(KUN),the South China Botanical Garden Herbarium of Chinese Academy of Sciences(IBSC),and the Herbarium of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences(HITBC)for providing specimen records.
The holly genus,Ilex L,in the monogeneric AqiHfoliaceae,is the largest woody dioecious genus(>664 spp.),with a near-cosmopolitan distribut:ion in mesic environments.We constructed a phylogeny based on two nuclear gene...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81470157);the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China(No.2017CFB650);Wuhan Science and Technology Project(No.2017060201010215).
Ilex cornuta (1.cornuta)is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)that has been used in clinical practice for hundreds of years.In order to provide more information about the chemical basis of its pharmacological effects...
In the present study, three new triterpenoids, 23-hydroxyurs-12, 18-dien-28-oic acid 3β-O-α-L-arabinopyranoside(1), 23-hydroxyurs-12, 18-dien-28-oic acid 3β-O-β-D-glucuronopyranoside-6-O-methyl ester(2), and urs-1...
The genus Ilex L. has been used as remedies in traditional Chinese medicine in Aquifoliaceae and beverages for thousands of years due to abundant pharmaceutical bioactivities. There are 600 species in genus IlexL. con...
Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(Grant No.20110001130003);the National Key Technology R&D Program "New Drug Innovation"of China(Grant No.2012ZX09301002-002-002 and 2012ZX09304-005)
A reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method with diode array detector (DAD) has been established to simultaneously determine six bioactive compounds in the roots ofllex pubescens, name...
llex paraguariensis St. Hilaire (Aquifoliaceae) is processed industrially to produce the commercial product "yerba mate" which is used as a tea-like beverage. It is one of the most commercialized plants of South A...
supported by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of People's Republic of China(No.NCET-04-0289)
A new compound, kudinoside LZ2 (1), was isolated from the leaves of llex kudincha. Its structure was elucidated by the combination of one- and two-dimensional NMR analysis, HR-ESI-MS, CD spectrum measurement and che...
A new triterpene glycoside, pomolic acid 3-O-6″-methyl-β-D-glucuronopyranosyl-(1→3)-α-L-arabino- pyranoside, and a new flavonol glycoside, quercetin 3-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→2)-α-L-arabinopyranoside togeth...