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Interrelationship of phytoalexin production and disease resistance in selected peanut genotypes.
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry - 21 Mar 2007
Sobolev Victor S, Guo Baozhu Z, Holbrook C Corley, Lynch Robert E
Abstract excerpt
In peanuts, a mechanism of resistance to fungal infection is reportedly due to the synthesis of stilbene phytoalexins, which are antibiotic, low molecular weight metabolites. The phytoalexin-associated response of different peanut genotypes to exogenous invasion in the field has not been investig...
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