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. 2021 Apr 19;11(4):603. doi: 10.3390/biom11040603

Table 1.

Various plants from different plant families, which are well reported as sources of podophyllotoxin.

S. No. Family;
Plant(s)
Part Used Derivative Ref.
1 Apiaceae;
Chaerophyllum aurium
Extract of subaerial part Deoxy podorhizone and deoxypodophyllotoxin [67]
2 Acanthaceae;
Justicia heterocarpa
Extract of aerial part Podophyllotoxin lignan [68]
3 Berberidaceae;
Jeffersonia diphylla,
Dysosma pleiantha,
Dysosma versipellis var. tomentosa,
Dysosma versipellis
Extract of root, Culture of Callus, Podophyllotoxin, kaempferol and quercetin, Podophyllotoxin derivatives, 4-demethylisopodophyllotoxin [69,70,71,72,73]
4 Burseraceae;
C. incisa
B. permollis
B. fagaroides
B. microphylla
B. konkinensis
Resin, Stem bark, Exudate, Stem, Extract of root Derivatives of podophyllotoxin, Deoxypodophyllotoxin, 4-demethyldeoxypodophyllotoxin [74,75,76,77,78]
5 Broginaceae;
L. erythrorhizon
Extract of needle leaf Podophyllotoxin and derivatives [79]
6 Cupressaceae;
J. sabina
J. virginia
J. conferta
C. preissii
J. depressa
C. rhomboidea
J. virginiana
J. chinensis
J. horizontalis
J. davurica
C. endlicher
J. thurifera
C. drummondii
C. intratropica
J. squamata
J. chinensis
C. collumelaris
J. scopulorum
J. lucayana
J. virginiana
J. silicicola
J. viriginia
T. occidentalis
Extract of needle leaf, Culture of suspension, culture of callus, needle leaf aqueous suspension, extract of needle leaf, Extract of stem, Extract of wood, Aerial part, Twig and extract of needle leaf Podophyllotoxin and derivatives, Deoxypodophyllotoxin, 5-methoxypodophyllotoxin [79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92]
7 Linaceae;
L. perenne
L. scabrellum
L. thracicum spp.
L. capatitum
L. elegans
L. austriacum
L. arboreum
L. hirsutum
L. usitatissimum
L. scabrellum
L. strictum spp.
L. album
L. flavum
L. mucronatum spp.
L. persicum
L. nodiflorum
L. mucronatum
Culture of hairy root, Culture of suspension, Seed extract, root extract, aerial part, Callus, Tissue culture, Aerial Tissue culture, cell culture Podophyllotoxin, Podophyllotoxin derivatives, 5-methoxypodophyllotoxin, 6-methylpodophyllotoxin, 6-methoxypodophyllotoxin [86,91,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107]