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EC number: 200-712-3 | CAS number: 69-72-7
Biological effects monitoring
Administrative data
- Endpoint:
- biological effects monitoring
- Type of information:
- other: synthesis of data
- Adequacy of study:
- supporting study
- Reliability:
- 2 (reliable with restrictions)
- Rationale for reliability incl. deficiencies:
- other: No experimental results but is a good synthesis on the natural occurrence and effects of salicylic acid and derivatives.
Data source
Reference
- Reference Type:
- review article or handbook
- Title:
- The natural history of salicylic acid, plant product and animal medicine.
- Author:
- Pierpoint W.S.
- Year:
- 1 997
- Bibliographic source:
- Interdisciplinary Science Rev. 22 :45-52
Materials and methods
Test material
- Reference substance name:
- Salicylic acid
- EC Number:
- 200-712-3
- EC Name:
- Salicylic acid
- Cas Number:
- 69-72-7
- Molecular formula:
- C7H6O3
- IUPAC Name:
- 2-hydroxybenzoic acid
Constituent 1
Results and discussion
Any other information on results incl. tables
Memo: influence of salicin in leaves on potential predators on these leaves.
The presence of salicin in willow leaves along with more complex compounds that can be hydrolysed to it would be expected to influence potential
predators on these leaves.
A number of studies have emphasised the ecological effects of these compounds and have suggested that they do help determine the feeding
preferences of such herbivores as the New Zealand opossum, Arctic snowshoe hares, and a range of insects including moths, butterflies,
weevils, and sawflies. Most usually they act as feeding deterrents although somme studies suggest more complex effects on host-herbivore interactions.
Thus salicin and populin appear to stimulate the feeding of 2 beetles, Chrysomela vigintipunctata costella and Plagiodera versicolora distincta.
Chrysomelid beetles are believed to hydrolyse salicin derivatives, oxidise the salicyl alcohol,
and store or secrete this as a deterrent aldehyde against ants and other arthropod predators.
Applicant's summary and conclusion
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