Chemotaxonomical investigations of fossil and extant beeches. I. Leaf lipids from the extant Fagus sylvatica L.
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- 作者：Thanh Thuy Nguyen-Tu ; Cé ; line Egasse ; Bernd Zeller ; Sylvie Derenne
- 关键词：Fagus sylvatica L. ; Fagaceae ; Lipids ; Leaf ; Gas chromatography ; Mass spectrometry ; France
Mots clé ; s ; Fagus sylvatica L. ; Fagaceae ; Lipides ; Feuille ; Chromatographie en phase gazeuse ; Spectromé ; trie de masse ; Fran - 刊名：Comptes Rendus Palevol
- 出版年：2007
- 出版时间：November 2007
- 年：2007
- 卷：6
- 期：6-7
- 页码：451-461
- 全文大小：623 K
文摘
The chemistry of fossil plants can help in precising their taxonomic affinities as well as their taphonomic history. The lipids from mature leaves of Fagus sylvatica L. were thus characterised to identify the components potentially informative that might be preserved in fossil beeches. Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry analyses of the lipids revealed a complex mixture comprising more than 60 identified constituents, belonging to diverse chemical families (e.g., sterols, fatty lipids, acyclic isoprenoids, triterpenes, glycerols, esters). Although most of the identified components are reported here for the first time in the European beech, they predominantly correspond to rather common compounds in Angiosperms. Nevertheless, their co-occurrence may constitute a useful fingerprint in further chemotaxonomic investigations of beeches. The newly reported compounds also include degradation products of plant lipids and fungal markers, showing that these degradation markers are to be considered as molecules related to the leaves in further taphonomic studies.