Citation
A. Bennamara et al., Methoxybifurcarenone: an antifungal and antibacterial meroditerpenoid fromthe brown alga Cystoseira tamariscifolia, PHYTOCHEM, 52(1), 1999, pp. 37-40
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Agricultural Chemistry","Animal & Plant Sciences
Journal title
PHYTOCHEMISTRY
ISSN journal
00319422
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Volume
52
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
37 - 40
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9422(199909)52:1<37:MAAAAM>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
A meroditerpenoid metabolite has been isolated from the brown alga Cystosei
ra tamariscifolia and characterized as methoxybifurcarenone, by spectral an
alysis. Methoxybifurcarenone possesses antifungal activity against three to
mato pathogenic fungi: Botrytis cinerea, Fusarium oxysporum sp. mycopersici
and Verticillium alboatrum and antibacterial activity against Agrobacteriu
m tumefaciens and Escherichia coli. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All righ
ts reserved.