2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Quality improvement of medicinal plants using insect-plant interaction
| Project/Area Number |
15K14972
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Natural medicines
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
Tanaka Ken 立命館大学, 薬学部, 教授 (60418689)
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| Research Collaborator |
TAKABAYASI Junji
TAMURA Takayuki
TATSUO Yoshiaki
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 化学生態学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Medicinal plants produce many compounds to help them survive in severe environments. The pharmaceutical properties of many crude drugs are attributable to such secondary metabolites. Therefore, knowledge of the actual function of secondary metabolites triggered in response to environmental factors could be utilized to produce highly functional crude drugs. The present study aims at investigating the prompt response of short period damaged Angelica acutiloba utilizing metabolomic and proteomic analyses. In addition, LC-MS analyses of the larval oral regurgitation of Papilio machaon were performed to identify the natural elicitor.
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| Free Research Field |
生薬学
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