PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - BOSTOCK, RICHARD M.
AU  - KUC, JOSEPH A.
AU  - LAINE, ROGER A.
TI  - Eicosapentaenoic and Arachidonic Acids from <em>Phytophthora infestans</em> Elicit Fungitoxic Sesquiterpenes in the Potato
AID  - 10.1126/science.212.4490.67
DP  - 1981 Apr 03
TA  - Science
PG  - 67--69
VI  - 212
IP  - 4490
4099  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/212/4490/67.short
4100  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/212/4490/67.full
SO  - Science1981 Apr 03; 212
AB  - Mycelial extracts from Phytophthora infestans caused necrosis and elicited the accumulation of antimicrobial stress metabolites in potato tubers. A portion of the material with elicitor activity could be extracted from the mycelium by a mixture of chloroform and methanol. The most active elicitors of stress metabolites in these extracts were eicosapentaenoic and arachidonic acids. These fatty acids were found in either free or esterified form in all active fractions of the mycelial extracts.