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Comperative In v e stig a tio n s on A lkaloid-m etabolism o f

C y tisu s s c o p a r iu s (L .)Link growing in Kaliningrad and in

F ra n k o n ia ;first r e s u lt s o f a jo in t s c i e n t i f i c work

Franz-C. Czygan,Gabriele G resser,U n iv ersity Wuerzburg,

V iktor P. Dedkov,University Kaliningrad

Taking in to con sid era tion the unique c h a r a c te r is tic s o f

C y tisu s we have stud ied the fo llow in g problem : how do natural

c lim a tic co n d itio n s in flu en ce some ind ividual a sp ec ts o f plant

development in d iffe r e n t region s where t h is p lan t grows. In t h is

p u b lic a tio n the problem is solved on one le v e l o f o rgan isa tion :

on the ch em ic a l-a n a ly tic a l le v e l. This work i s o rien ted toward

the id e n tific a t io n and d istr ib u tio n o f c h in o liz id in -a lk a lo id s .

In Germany

p lan ts

growing near WUrzburg and in the

Bo tan ica l Garden o f the U n iv ersity were s e le c te d as a su b ject

fo r a com- -p a r a tiv e in v e stig a tio n . In Kaliningradskaya Oblast

the samples have been gathered near Svetlogorsk and Ladushkin.

The Fabacea

C ytisu s scopariu s grows p rim arily in the

A tla n tic Western Europe, however i t is a ls o p reva len t in

Southern and Middle Europe and to the north as fa r a s Southern

Sweden, and to the

e a s t

fa r

a s

the

Ukraine. The

Kaliningradskaya Oblast i s on the border o f the area where t h is

p lan t is found. One can meet t h is sp e c ie s in Bagrationovsky

Region, near Svet- -lo g o rsk , in dry pine f o r e s t s , on the slo p e s

o f h i l l s , along f o r e s t roads.

C y tisu s scopariu s is a bush:

i t s h eigh t i s 30-150 cm.

I t s

sp rou ts are green, almost le a f le s s . The flow ers a re’ la rge,

sin g u la r , lig h t yellow in colour, and grow in the le a v e s 'a x ils

in the lower part o f the sprout. The p la n t's f r u it s are black,

f l a t , d eh iscen t bean lik e seeds. It i s a bee p lan t which i s

extrem ely d eco ra tive and good a t sand fix a tio n . The p lan t and i t s

o i l a lo id s are used in medical p ra ctic e fo r d iffe r e n t kinds o f

heart d ise a se s.

P lan ts o f t h is s p e c ie s sta y green during the whole year in

Western and Southern Europe.

In Central Europe ( fo r example in

Germany) the p lan t p a rts, which are above the ground , o ffte n

d ie o f f during the cold , e s p e c ia lly in snow less w in ters.

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