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Invertebrate Endocrinology and Hormonal Heterophylly pp 185–203Cite as

Ecdysones of Plant Origin

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It is well known that the first insect molting hormone, α-ecdysone, was isolated from the silkworm, Bombyx mori, by Butenandt and Karlson in 1954 with a background of pioneering work performed by a number of researchers involved in the purification of the hormone. Since then six additional molting hormones (zooecdysones) have been isolated from a variety of arthropods, insects, and crustaceans. The content of these zooecdysones in animals is only 10-5–10-9 per cent; the compound occurring most commonly is β-ecdysone. The structure of α-ecdysone was first elucidated in 1965, and the structures of another five zooecdysones were successively determined thereafter.

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Hikino, H., Takemoto, T. (1974). Ecdysones of Plant Origin. In: Burdette, W.J. (eds) Invertebrate Endocrinology and Hormonal Heterophylly. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65769-6_16

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