Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5168040 Phytochemistry 2006 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
Potato plants produce the 9(S)-hydroperoxide of linolenic acid (9(S)-HPOT) as a precursor of fungitoxic oxylipins. A constitutively expressed glutathione transferase from the potato pathogen Phytophthora infestans can reduce 9(S)-HPOT to the non-toxic mono-hydroxyalcohol 9(S)-HOT.
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