H. Miyagawa et al., INDUCTION OF AVENANTHRAMIDES IN OAT LEAVES INOCULATED WITH CROWN RUSTFUNGUS, PUCCINIA-CORONATA F SP AVENAE, Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 59(12), 1995, pp. 2305-2306
The chemical structures of the metabolites induced in oat leaves that
had been inoculated with an incompatible race of crown rust fungus (ph
ytoalexins) were examined. An HPLC analysis, using synthetic standards
, demonstrates that they were a series of N-acyl 5-hydroxyanthranilate
s named avenanthramides, where the acyl groups were p-coumaroyl (avena
nthramide A), feruloyl (avenanthramide B), and 5-(4'-hydroxyphenyl)-pe
nta-2,4-dienoyl (avenanthramide L).