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Natural product chemistry and its part in the defence against insects and fungi in agriculture†

✍ Scribed by Crombie, Leslie


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
262 KB
Volume
55
Category
Article
ISSN
1526-498X

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✦ Synopsis


This paper surveys our work on natural products as potential models for defensive substances against insect and fungal predators. Insecticides and repellents included are pyrethrins, rotenoids, lipid amides, phorbol esters, cordifolia germacranolides, nicandrenoids, mammeins, dihydroagarofuran esters, and cembrene diols. The fungal H-S toxins from Alternaria, and avenacins from oat roots are brie¯y considered. The avenacins provide an in-situ defence of oat roots against the destructive `Take-all' fungus disease.