Desaspidin Explained

Desaspidin is an anthelmintic. Desapidin may occur in natural form within some plants such as Coastal woodfern, Dryopteris arguta.[1] Since the 1950s the inhibition effects of desapidins upon phosphorylation in chloroplasts has been noted and studied.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hogan CM . 2008 . Coastal Woodfern (Dryopteris arguta) . GlobalTwitcher . Stromberg M . https://web.archive.org/web/20110711102430/http://www.globaltwitcher.com/artspec_information.asp?thingid=88976 . 2011-07-11 .
  2. Book: Bacon K . Photosynthesis : photobiochemistry and photobiophysics . 2001 . Kluwer Academic Publishers . Dordrecht . 0-7923-6791-X.