Phytoalexins: Current Progress and Future Prospects

• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
• Subjects: chemical synthesis; biosynthetic studies and modulation of phytoalexin biosynthesis; biological activities; molecular engineering in plants and microbes / applications; structure/activity relationships; fungal metabolism; phytoalexin structure elucidation; methods for phytoalexin analysis; transport mechanisms; plant metabolism; applications
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Phytoalexins are antimicrobial substances of low molecular weight produced by plants in response to infection or stress, which form part of their active defense mechanisms. It is now clear that phytoalexins exhibit toxicity across much of the biological spectrum, prokaryotic and eukaryotic. Starting...