Tephrosin is

rotenoid Rotenoids are naturally occurring substances containing a cis-fused tetrahydrochromeno ,4-bhromene nucleus. Many have insecticidal and piscicidal activity, such as the prototypical member of the family, rotenone. Rotenoids are related to the is ...

. It is a natural fish poison found in the leaves and seeds of ''

Tephrosia purpurea ''Tephrosia purpurea'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It grows in poor soils as a common wasteland weed and has a pantropical distribution. It is a type of legume native to south-western Asia (the Levant, Arabian Penins ...

'' and '' T. vogelii''.Production of rotenoids by heterotrophic and photomixotrophic cell cultures of tephrosia vogelii. Nadine Lambert, Marie-France Trouslot, Claudine Nef-Campa and Hervé Chrestin, Phytochemistry, Volume 34, Issue 6, December 1993, Pages 1515-1520,

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Pesticides Phenol ethers Acyloins Tertiary alcohols Rotenoids Cyclic ethers Heterocyclic compounds with 5 rings Pyranochromenes Methoxy compounds {{heterocyclic-stub

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