Phytochemistry

Chemical induction of poly-cis carotenoid biosynthesis

SM Poling, WJ Hsu, H Yokoyama

Index: Poling, Stephen M.; Hsu, Wan-Jean; Yokoyama, Henry Phytochemistry (Elsevier), 1980 , vol. 19, p. 1677 - 1680

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Abstract

Abstract A new class of synthetic bioregulators is reported which cause the accumulation of poly-cis carotenoids in the flavedo of Marsh white seedless grapefruit. The compounds tested were all secondary amines: dibenzylamine, substituted dibenzylamines (4-F; 4-Cl; 4- Br; 2-, 3-and 4-Me; 4-NO 2; 4-CN; 4-Cl, 4′-Me; 4-Me, 4′-NO 2), N-benzyl phenethylamine and N-benzyl 2-naphthalenemethylamine. The most effective, 4-chlorodibenzylamine, ...