Effects of Controlled Atmospheres on Production of Sesquiterpenoid Stress Metabolites by White Potato Tuber: Possible Involvement of Cyanide-resistant Respiration. 1979

L M Alves, and E G Heisler, and J C Kissinger, and J M Patterson, and E B Kalan
Eastern Regional Research Center, Federal Research, Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19118.

Levels of katahdinone (solavetivone), lubimin, rishitin, and phytuberin, sesquiterpenoid stress metabolites of white potato (Solanum tuberosum), were monitored in tuber slices which were challenged with an extract of Phytophthora infestans and incubated under controlled atmospheres. A mixture of ethylene in air enhanced stress metabolite production. This enhancement was amplified by higher partial pressures of oxygen. Stress metabolite production was inhibited by salicylhydroxamic acid. These results suggest the involvement of cyanide-resistant respiration in the production of potato stress metabolites, compounds which may serve as phytoalexins.

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