Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Bioactive Compounds in the Storage Organs of Plants, Hosakatte Niranjana Murthy,Kee Yoeup Paek,So-Young Park, Editör, Springer Nature, Basel, ss.1-18, 2023
The genus Ornithogalum L. includes about 200 species spread in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and is classified under the family Hyacinthaceae. Ornithogalum species are bulbous plants with a variety of uses, including vegetable, decorative, and medicinal plants. The bulbs of the plant, with commercial and medicinal importance, have been used as an emetic and to treat abscesses since Dioscorides’ time. Many secondary metabolites have been identified within the genus, such as flavonoids, saponins, terpenoids, and steroidal glycosides (cardenolide glycosides, cholestane glycosides, spirostane glycosides, and stigmastane glycosides) in addition to volatiles. The bulbs of Ornithogalum species are a good source of cholestane glycosides, and the aerial parts have a high concentration of phenolic chemicals. Phytochemical analyzes and biological activity studies of Ornithogalum species mainly focus on O. caudatum and O. saundersiae species. Ornithogalum species exert antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, and anticancer activities. OSW-1, a significant cholestane glycoside isolated from Ornithogalum species, was found to possess high tumor cell selectivity and highly strong toxicity over a wide variety of tumor cells that are malignant in vitro. The current review gives a current review of the genus’ chemical composition and pharmacological activities.