Natural products in crop protection

FE Dayan, CL Cantrell, SO Duke - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
The tremendous increase in crop yields associated with the 'green'revolution has been
possible in part by the discovery and utilization of chemicals for pest control. However …

Dynamic root exudation of sorgoleone and its in planta mechanism of action

FE Dayan, JL Howell… - Journal of Experimental …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The oily droplets exuded from the root hairs of sorghum are composed of a 1: 1 ratio of
sorgoleone and its lipid resorcinol analogue. The production of these droplets appears to be …

Potentials and prospects of sorghum allelopathy in agroecosystems.

IS Alsaadawi, FE Dayan - Allelopathy Journal, 2009 - search.ebscohost.com
The promising allelopathic potential of sorghum [Sorghum bicolor L.(Moench)] opens a
fruitful area of research to exploit this phenomenon in weed control and regulation of …

Mineralization of the allelochemical sorgoleone in soil

AL Gimsing, J Bælum, FE Dayan, MA Locke, LH Sejerø… - Chemosphere, 2009 - Elsevier
The allelochemical sorgoleone is produced in and released from the root hairs of sorghum
(Sorghum bicolor). Studies have confirmed that it is the release of sorgoleone that causes …

Biological activity of allelochemicals

FE Dayan, SO Duke - Plant-derived natural products: synthesis, function …, 2009 - Springer
All plants produce compounds that are phytotoxic to another plant species at some
concentration. In some cases, these compounds function, at least in part, in plant/plant …

Using earthworm avoidance behaviour to assess the toxicity of formulated herbicides and their active ingredients on natural soils

C Marques, R Pereira, F Gonçalves - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2009 - Springer
Background, aim, and scope Soil quality has been threatened by intensive agricultural
practises, namely those relying on the application of pesticides, such as herbicides. Among …

β-Triketone Inhibitors of Plant p-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase: Modeling and Comparative Molecular Field Analysis of Their Interactions

FE Dayan, N Singh, CR McCurdy… - Journal of agricultural …, 2009 - ACS Publications
p-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) is the target site of β-triketone herbicides in
current use. Nineteen β-triketones and analogues, including the naturally occurring …

Biological activity of defence-related plant secondary metabolites

JP Morrissey - Plant-derived natural products: Synthesis, function, and …, 2009 - Springer
Althought is accepted that secondary metabolites and natural products in plants are involved
in diverse activities, the function of most of the thousands of phenolics, quinones, terpenes …

Reactions of Amines with Zwitterionic Quinoneimines: Synthesis of New Anionic and Zwitterionic Quinonoids

FB Tamboura, CSJ Cazin, R Pattacini, P Braunstein - 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Following the discovery of an unprecedented transamination reaction between primary
alkylamines and a quinonoid molecule of the type [C6H2 ([pb2] NHCH2R) 2 ([pb2] O) 2](1) …

磺草酮亚慢性暴露对大鼠糖代谢和酪氨酸代谢的影响

金勇, 吴南翔, 金锋, 于仲波, 谭玉凤, 陶核, 朱勇… - 毒理学杂志, 2009 - cqvip.com
目的探讨磺草酮(一种三酮类除草剂) 亚慢性暴露对大鼠糖代谢和酪氨酸代谢的影响.
方法以不同剂量磺草酮(5, 50,500 mg/(kg· d)) 混饲染毒90d. 分别测定第零天, 30, 60, 90d …