JNTBGRI Bambusetum: State of the art

Bambusetum at Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI) maintains diverse bamboo species and their different hereditary lines along with records of their pheno-events such as growth, flowering, fruiting, death and details on progenies. This paper concerns to bambusetum history and an inventory of its collections (68 spp. and 1 variety under 15 genera and 12 hybrids).

                    Koshy, K C.  2017. Bambusetum at Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute: State of the art. In P Singh and S S Dash (Eds) Indian Botanic Gardens:Role in Conservation, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkatta. pp 361-378.

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27 secondary metabolites from Melocanna baccifera!

Secondary metabolites from the unique bamboo, Melocanna baccifera

Phytochemistry of fruits and leaves of the unique bamboo Melocanna
baccifera resulted in the isolation of 27 secondary metabolites,
including 4-Oxabicyclo[3.2.2]nona-1(7),5,8-triene and Verbacine.
Biological activity studies of Verbacine revealed it as an inhibitor of
acetylcholinesterase and as cytotoxic against C6 cancer cells.

Balaji Govindan, Anil John Johnson, Gayathri Viswanathan,Venkataraman Ramaswamy, Konnath Chacko Koshy & Sabulal Baby. 2018.  Secondary metabolites from the unique bamboo, Melocanna baccifera, Natural Product Research, DOI:10.1080/14786419.2018.1434647

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