INHIBITING EFFECTS OF LUNULARIC ACID ANALOGS ON THE GROWTH OF LIVERWORT, WATERCRESS, AND TIMOTHY GRASS

Authors
NAKAYAMA T FUKUSHI Y MIZUTANI J TAHARA S
Citation
T. Nakayama et al., INHIBITING EFFECTS OF LUNULARIC ACID ANALOGS ON THE GROWTH OF LIVERWORT, WATERCRESS, AND TIMOTHY GRASS, Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 60(5), 1996, pp. 862-865
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Biology,Agriculture,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology","Food Science & Tenology
Journal title
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry → ACNP
ISSN journal
09168451
Volume
60
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
862 - 865
Database
ISI
SICI code
0916-8451(1996)60:5<862:IEOLAA>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
A number of analogs of lunularic acid varying in the number of methyle ne carbons between the two benzene rings and in the substituents on th eir rings were prepared, and their effects on the growth of liverwort gemmaling, watercress, and timothy grass were investigated. Almost all the analogs tested were more inhibitory than lunularic acid, and a co rrelation between the structure and activity was observed, The differe nces in the growth-inhibition activity of analogs between higher and l ower plants are also discussed.