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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2014

Red card for pathogens: phytoalexins in sorghum and maize.

Alana Poloni, Jan Schirawski

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Untargeted metabolomics of mature sorghum [Frontiers in plant science · 2026
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  7. Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Contrasting Plant Responses ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Alana PoloniDepartment of Microbial Genetics, Institute of Applied Microbiology, Aachen Biology and Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, Aachen 52074, Germany. alana.poloni@rwth-aachen.de.
Jan SchirawskiDepartment of Microbial Genetics, Institute of Applied Microbiology, Aachen Biology and Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, Aachen 52074, Germany. jan.schirawski@rwth-aachen.de.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

Indexed as

AnimalsBasidiomycotaBiosynthetic PathwaysDisease ResistanceHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansPhytoalexinsPlant DiseasesSesquiterpenesSorghumZea maysPhytoalexinsSesquiterpenes

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PMID24983861
PMCPMC6271655

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