ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF LINOLEIC-ACID AS AN ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT FROM THE CHALKBROOD FUNGUS, ASCOSPHAERA-APIS

Authors
FELDLAUFER MF LUSBY WR KNOX DA SHIMANUKI H
Citation
Mf. Feldlaufer et al., ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF LINOLEIC-ACID AS AN ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT FROM THE CHALKBROOD FUNGUS, ASCOSPHAERA-APIS, Apidologie, 24(2), 1993, pp. 89-94
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture,Entomology
Journal title
Apidologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00448435
Volume
24
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
89 - 94
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-8435(1993)24:2<89:IAIOLA>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Ethanol extracts of mixtures of mycelia and spores of Ascosphaera apis , the causative agent of chalkbrood disease in honey bee, was shown to contain an antimicrobial compound active against Bacillus larvae, the causative agent of American foulbrood disease. Purification by high p erformance liquid chromatography and analysis by mass spectrometry ide ntified the active compound as 9,12-octadecadienoic acid (linoleic aci d).