Author:
Ingham John L.,Tahara Satoshi
Abstract
Abstract
Following inoculation with the fungus Helm inthosporium carbonum , excised leaflets of the tropical papilionate legume Calopogonium mucunoides have been found to produce isoneorautenol, a new dimethylpyrano-substituted isoflavonoid (pterocarpan) phytoalexin. This compound accumulates together with dem ethylm edicarpin, neodunol, tuberosin, sophorap-terocarpan A, and a sixth highly antifungal isoflavonoid (calopocarpin) characterised as 3,9-dihydroxy-2-(3,3-dimethylallyl)pterocarpan. Chromatographic and spectroscopic examination of ‘hom oedudiol’ (a pterocarpan from N eorautanenia edulis roots previously considered to possess the structure now assigned to calopocarpin) has shown that in reality this substance is identical with sophorapterocarpan A. The systematic relationship of Calopogonium to other genera within the legume tribe Phaseoleae is briefly discussed.
Subject
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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