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Recent Advances in Research Composition and Activity on Voacanga africana

  • TONG Yan ,
  • ZHENG Zhi-zhong ,
  • LIN Yi ,
  • MING Yan-lin
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  • (1.School of Chemical Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, Fujian China; 2.Xiamen Overseas Chinese Subtropical Plant Introduction Garden/Plant Introduction & Quarantine and Plant Product Key Laboratory of Xiamen City, Xiamen 361002, Fujian China; 3.Fujian Institute of Subtropical Botany/Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Subtropical Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Xiamen 361006, Fujian China)

Received date: 2019-09-25

  Revised date: 2019-11-05

  Online published: 2019-12-30

Abstract

Voacanga africana is unique plant resource used to treat malaria, dysentery, children’s spasm and other diseases in Africa. With the development of the research on V. africana in recent years, it was found that V. africana contained a large amount of alkaloids, volatile oil, flavonoids, tannins, steroids, terpenoids, psychoglycosides, saponins, anthracene and other chemical components. V. africana had cytotoxicity, anti-oxidation, anti-bacterial, nerve protection, anti-angiogenesis and other pharmacological activities. It was successfully introduced and domesticated to China. In this paper, the recent advances on chemical constituents and activities of V. africana were reviewed to provide information for further research and development.

Cite this article

TONG Yan , ZHENG Zhi-zhong , LIN Yi , MING Yan-lin . Recent Advances in Research Composition and Activity on Voacanga africana[J]. Subtropical Plant Science, 2019 , 48(04) : 359 -365 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1009-7791.2019.04.011

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