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Red Card for Pathogens: Phytoalexins in Sorghum and Maize
Cereal crop plants such as maize and sorghum are constantly being attacked by a great variety of pathogens that cause large economic losses. Plants protect themselves against pathogens by synthesizing antimicrobial compounds, which include phytoalexins. In this review we summarize the current knowle...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6271655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24983861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules19079114 |
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description | Cereal crop plants such as maize and sorghum are constantly being attacked by a great variety of pathogens that cause large economic losses. Plants protect themselves against pathogens by synthesizing antimicrobial compounds, which include phytoalexins. In this review we summarize the current knowledge on phytoalexins produced by sorghum (luteolinidin, apigeninidin) and maize (zealexin, kauralexin, DIMBOA and HDMBOA). For these molecules, we highlight biosynthetic pathways, known intermediates, proposed enzymes, and mechanisms of elicitation. Finally, we discuss the involvement of phytoalexins in plant resistance and their possible application in technology, medicine and agriculture. For those whose world is round we tried to set the scene in the context of a hypothetical football game in which pathogens fight with phytoalexins on the different playing fields provided by maize and sorghum. |
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spelling | pubmed-62716552018-12-21 Red Card for Pathogens: Phytoalexins in Sorghum and Maize Poloni, Alana Schirawski, Jan Molecules Review Cereal crop plants such as maize and sorghum are constantly being attacked by a great variety of pathogens that cause large economic losses. Plants protect themselves against pathogens by synthesizing antimicrobial compounds, which include phytoalexins. In this review we summarize the current knowledge on phytoalexins produced by sorghum (luteolinidin, apigeninidin) and maize (zealexin, kauralexin, DIMBOA and HDMBOA). For these molecules, we highlight biosynthetic pathways, known intermediates, proposed enzymes, and mechanisms of elicitation. Finally, we discuss the involvement of phytoalexins in plant resistance and their possible application in technology, medicine and agriculture. For those whose world is round we tried to set the scene in the context of a hypothetical football game in which pathogens fight with phytoalexins on the different playing fields provided by maize and sorghum. MDPI 2014-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6271655/ /pubmed/24983861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules19079114 Text en © 2014 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Poloni, Alana Schirawski, Jan Red Card for Pathogens: Phytoalexins in Sorghum and Maize |
title | Red Card for Pathogens: Phytoalexins in Sorghum and Maize |
title_full | Red Card for Pathogens: Phytoalexins in Sorghum and Maize |
title_fullStr | Red Card for Pathogens: Phytoalexins in Sorghum and Maize |
title_full_unstemmed | Red Card for Pathogens: Phytoalexins in Sorghum and Maize |
title_short | Red Card for Pathogens: Phytoalexins in Sorghum and Maize |
title_sort | red card for pathogens: phytoalexins in sorghum and maize |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6271655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24983861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules19079114 |
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