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Identification of natural diterpenes that inhibit bacterial wilt disease in tobacco, tomato and Arabidopsis.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Aug 2012
Seo Shigemi, Gomi Kenji, Kaku Hisatoshi, Abe Hiroshi, Seto Hideharu, Nakatsu Shingo, Neya Masahiro, Kobayashi Michie, Nakaho Kazuhiro, Ichinose Yuki, Mitsuhara Ichiro, Ohashi Yuko
Abstract excerpt
The soil-borne bacterial pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum invades a broad range of plants through their roots, resulting in wilting of the plant, but no effective protection against this disease has been developed. Two bacterial wilt disease-inhibiting compounds were biochemically isolated from tobacco and identified as sclareol and cis-abienol, labdane-type diterpenes. When exogenously applied to their roots,...
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