Also known as (-)-6-hydroxymellein, (3R)-6,8-dihydroxy-3-methyl-3,4-dihydro-2-benzopyran-1-one
6-Hydroxymellein is a dihydroisocoumarin, a phenolic compound found in carrots. It has also been isolated in Aspergillus terreus and shows an inhibition of pollen development in Arabidopsis thaliana.
6-Hydroxymellein is a dihydroisocoumarin, a phenolic compound found in carrots. It has also been isolated in Aspergillus terreus and shows an inhibition of pollen development in Arabidopsis thaliana.
== Biosynthesis == 6-Methoxymellein is formed from S-adenosyl methionine and 6-hydroxymellein by the enzyme 6-hydroxymellein O-methyltransferase with secondary production of S-adenosylhomocysteine.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).