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Larvicidal constituents of Melantheria albinervia
R Slimestad1, A Marston, S Mavi
1Institut de Pharmacognosie et Phytochimie, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Planta Medica
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
Bioactivity-guided fractionation has led to the isolation of two larvicidal diterpenes, active against the yellow fever-transmitting mosquito Aedes aegypti, from a dichloromethane root extract of Melantheria albinervia (Asteraceae), a plant from Zimbabwe. These diterpenes were identified as ent-kaur-16-en-19-oic acid and 9(11),16-kauradien-19-oic acid. The diterpenes were also weakly active against Bacillus subtilis.