Pigments from the Cap Cuticle of the Bay Boletus (Xerocomus badius)

1984/06/01 by Bert Steffan, Wölfgang Steglich · 4 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Engineering · Medicine · #Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology #Fungal Biology and Applications #Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research

paper · doi:10.1002/anie.198404451

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Abstract

A natural product with the unusual naphtho[1,8-bc]pyrandione chromophore is badion A 1, the brown pigment of the cap cuticle of the bay boletus. 1 is derived biogenetically from a trihydroxypulvinic acid present in the fungus.

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