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258 M. Kreh<br />

Table 9.1 Results of galanthamine screening: percentage content of total alkaloids <strong>and</strong><br />

galanthamine expressed on a fresh (FW) or dry (DW) weight basis<br />

Species or cultivar % Alkaloids % Galanthamine<br />

FW DW FW DW<br />

Chlidanthus fragrans 0.371 0.531 0.0017 0.0054<br />

Crinum × powellii 0.200 0.231 0 0<br />

Elisena longipetala 0.090 0.162 0 0<br />

Galanthus elwesii 0.113 0.290 0.0084 0.0213<br />

Galanthus nivalis 0.071 0.124 0.0013 0.0031<br />

Ixolirion pallasii 0.003 0.007 0 0<br />

Leucojum aestivum 0.033 0.236 0.0009 0.0065<br />

Leucojum vernum 0.034 0.107 0.0001 0.0001<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Barrett Browning’ 0.127 0.263 0.0047 0.0096<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Brougshane’ 0.172 0.503 0.0004 0.0012<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Carlton’ 0.216 0.555 0.0725 0.1880<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Dick Wilden’ 0.099 0.230 0.0008 0.0019<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Dutch Master’ 0.176 0.524 0.0001 0.0001<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘February Gold’ 0.105 0.660 0.0118 0.0780<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Flower Drift’ 0.109 0.254 0.0163 0.0381<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Flower Record’ 0.177 0.927 0.0150 0.0800<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Fortune’ (from Hillegom) 0.140 0.310 0.0224 0.0488<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Fortune’ (from Texel) 0.174 0.583 0.0208 0.0695<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Gigantic Star’ 0.157 0.650 0.0290 0.1201<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Golden Harvest’ 0.161 0.407 0 0<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Ice Follies’ 0.090 0.264 0.0250 0.0740<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Minnow’ 0.028 0.079 0.0006 0.0018<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Salome’ 0.073 0.139 0.0020 0.0038<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Tête-à-Tête’ 0.066 0.168 0 0<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Unsurpassable’ 0.225 0.591 0.0004 0.0010<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Van Sion’ 0.089 0.206 0.0037 0.0086<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Verger’ 0.055 0.161 0 0<br />

<strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Yellow Sun’ 0.138 0.480 0.0035 0.0123<br />

Nerine bowdenii 0.220 0.241 0 0<br />

Sprekelia formosissima 0.011 0.021 0 0<br />

Zephyranthes robusta 0.070 0.090 0.0033 0.0150<br />

the UK with 354 ha in 1988/1989, it was the most cultivated narcissus in the<br />

Netherl<strong>and</strong>s, <strong>and</strong> therefore easy to obtain <strong>and</strong> cheap (Erhardt, 1993). <strong>Narcissus</strong><br />

‘Carlton’ is not especially susceptible to diseases <strong>and</strong> climate, special winter protection<br />

is not necessary, <strong>and</strong> it has a high rate of multiplication (Jefferson-Brown,<br />

1991).<br />

Since nearly all Amaryllidaceae alkaloids previously tested had interesting<br />

pharmacological <strong>and</strong> biological properties, it was the intention to isolate as many<br />

different alkaloids as possible from <strong>Narcissus</strong> ‘Carlton’. Using preparative HPLC,<br />

twenty-nine alkaloids were isolated from the bulbs, in addition to galanthamine.<br />

The structures of the then unknown natural products 1-O-acetyl-10-norpluviine,<br />

10-norpluviine, O-methyloduline, N-demethylmasonine, 1,10-diacetyl-10-norpluviine<br />

<strong>and</strong> O-acetylgalanthamine were elucidated by modern spectroscopic techniques<br />

as well as by conventional analytical methods (Kreh, 1995).

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