LIBRARY 
STATE PLANT BOARD 
liarch 1945 E_636 
United States Department of Agriculture 
Agricultural Research Administration 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
A REVIEW OF INFORMATION ON ANABASINE AND NORNICOTINE, 1933-19U 
(Supplement to E-537 and E-561) 
By R. C. Roark, Division of Insecticide Investigations 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Introduction 2 
Chemistry of anabasine ................ 2 
Occurrence of anabaeine and nornicotine ....... 3 
Anabasis 3 
Duboisia 3 
Nicotiana ............ 3 
Occurrence of nornicotine in commercial nicotine 
sulfate ...... .... 6 
Extraction of anabaeine from plants 6 
Composition of commercial anabasine sulfate made from 
Anabasis 7 
Analytical methods • 7 
Separation of anabasine from nicotine and other 
alkaloids 8 
Pharmacology of anabasine and nornicotine 11 
Anabasine 11 
Nornicotine 11 
Insect icidal value of anabasine 12 
Thysanoptera 12 
Homoptera « . 13 
Hemiptera •••• ik 
Dlptena Ik 
Coleoptera .......... 15 
Anoplura . 15 
Patents . 15 
Literature cited . ........ 16 
MAR 2 1 1945 
