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Ginkgo biloba leaves and sarcotesta contain ginkgolic acids [83] – which are highly allergenic – long-chain alkylphenols, such as bilobol or adipostatin A [84] (bilobol is a substance related to anacardic acid from cashew nut shells and urushiols present in poison ivy and other Toxicodendron spp.) [9] [80] Individuals with a history of ...
Ginkgo is a genus of non-flowering seed plants, assigned to the gymnosperms.The scientific name is also used as the English common name. The order to which the genus belongs, Ginkgoales, first appeared in the Permian, [3, and Ginkgo is now the only living genus within the order.
Ginkgoales are a gymnosperm order containing only one extant species: Ginkgo biloba, the ginkgo tree. [1] The order has a long fossil record extending back to the Early Permian around 300 million years ago from fossils found worldwide. The order was a common component of Permian and Triassic flora before the super dominance of conifers.
Tree of life at the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City, by Oscar Soteno. A Tree of Life (Spanish: Árbol de la vida) is a type of Mexican pottery sculpture traditional in central Mexico, especially in the municipality of State of Mexico. Originally the sculptures depicted the Biblical story of creation, as an aid for teaching it to natives in ...
The "Ginkgo biloba" letter, 27 September 1815 "Gingo biloba" (originally "Ginkgo biloba") is a poem written in September 1815 by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Written as a show of friendship to Marianne von Willemer, the poem was later published in his collection West–östlicher Divan (West–Eastern Divan) in 1819. Goethe used ...
Ginkgolide B, specifically, is a diterpenoid trilactone with six five-membered rings. It contains a spiro[4,4]-nonane carbocyclic ring, a tetrahydrofuran ring, and a very specific tert-butyl group at one of the rings (Figure 1).
Ginkgoidae is a subclass of Equisetopsida in the sense used by Mark W. Chase and James L. Reveal in their 2009 article "A phylogenetic classification of the land plants to accompany APG III."
Ginkgotoxin is the 4'-O-methyl derivative of vitamin B 6 (), but the presence of the vitamin is not required for the biosynthesis of ginkgotoxin.It indicates that the pyridoxine system can be synthesized de novo in the cells of Ginkgo biloba.