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Ecdysteroids
Steroids that bring about MOLTING or ecdysis in insects. Ecdysteroids include the endogenous insect hormones (ECDYSONE and ECDYSTERONE) and the insect-molting hormones found in plants, the phytoecdysteroids. Phytoecdysteroids are natural insecticides.
Year introduced: 2002
Asparagus Plant
A plant genus in the family Asparagaceae that contains ECDYSTEROIDS and is an ingredient of Siotone. The shoots are used as a vegetable and the roots are used in FOLK MEDICINE.
cytochrome P-450 CYP12A1 (house fly) [Supplementary Concept]
a mitochondrial cytochrome P450; metabolizes a varieity of insecticides and other xenobiotics; does not act on ecdysteroids, juvenoids or fatty acids; amino acid sequence in first source; GenBank U86618
Date introduced: December 18, 1998
ecdysteroid UDP-glucosyltransferase [Supplementary Concept]
disrupts the hormonal balance of insect host by catalysing the conjugation of ecdysteroids, the moulting hormones, with the sugar moiety from UDP-glucose or UDP-galactose
Date introduced: May 6, 1994