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In fact, we observed the ability of cationic PO (pi 9.3) to bind with the purified cell walls of this pathogen (Fig. 8, A). This isoform was activated in the infected plants and under the influence of the stress hormone jasmonic acid, both individually and in combination with salicylic acid. 

Fig. 8. Activation of the PO binding with P, infestans cell walls (glucan-specific ) under pathogen inoculation and treatment with salicylic (SA) and jasmonic (JA) acids (A) Peroxidase activity in stomata guard cells and intercellular spaces of adjoining epidermal leaf cells and on the surface of mycelium contacting with the stomata (B). (1) Non-treated control (2) infection (3) treatment with SA (4) treatment with SA + infection (5) treatment with JA (6) treatment with JA + infection (7) treatment with SA + JA (8) treatment with SA + JA + infection g - gifs of P. infestans s - stomata guard cell. Specific to P, infestans cell walls, PO is highlighted.

Jasmonates are important odorant compounds. For the synthesis of new substances of this type, Giersch and Forris developed a domino Claisen/ene/retro-ene process which allows the acid-catalyzed transformation of sorbyl alcohol 4-285 and the cyclic acetals 4-286 into the cycloalkenone 4-292 with the proposed intermediates 4-287 to 4-291 (Scheme 4.61) [97]. A similar domino process had been described by Srikrishna and coworkers [98]. Acyclic acetals gave only the Claisen rearrangement products. 

Egg-deposition also can induce the host plant to emit volatiles that attract egg parasitoids. For example, egg deposition by the elm leaf beetle (Xantho-galeruca luteola) causes its host plant, the field elm (Ulmus minor), to release a blend of mostly terpenoids that attract the egg parasitoid Oomyzus galleru-cae (Eulophidae) [ 86]. Although the specific compounds that initiate the volatile emission and that attract the egg parasitoid are unknown, the host plant response can be induced with jasmonic acid. 

Exposure to volatile stress signals such as ethylene and jasmonic acid can induce the synthesis and accumulation of high levels of phenolic compounds. The effect is not readily apparent because the accumulated phenolic compounds remain sequestered in organelles within the induced cells. However, increased membrane permeability resulting from even a minor injury or stress can result in levels of discoloration that are abnormally high for that cultivar. 

Several papers have reported that, during germination, new LOXs are synthesized in the seedling and the cotyledons the LOX mRNAs synthesized during germination can also be found in the mature plant. Their levels were increased by the application of abscisic acid and jasmonic acid, or by stress such as wounding, pathogen infection, or water deficit (Porta and Rocha-Sosa 2002). 

Figure 11.6. Effect of natural product treatment (methyl jasmonate Mj 22.4 pg/liter, ethanol ETOH 300 pL/liter, methyl jasmonate-ethanol (MJ-ETOH) on (I) lycopene (mg/100 g FW), (II) total phenols (mg/100 g FW), and (III) ascorbic acid (mg/100 g FW) of fresh-cut tomato stored at 5°C. Bars show the final values after treatments. Different letters on top of the bars indicate statistical differences among treatments (p < 0.05).

DU, L., LYKKESFELDT, J, OLSEN, C.E., HALKIER, B.A., Involvement of cytochrome P450 in oxime production in glucosinolate biosynthesis as demonstrated by an in vitro microsomal enzyme system isolated from jasmonic acid-induced seedlings oiSinapis alba L, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 1995, 92, 12505-12509. 

Blechert and co-workers have also reported the application of cross-metathesis to the synthesis of jasmonic acid derivatives containing modified alkene side chains [28]. Molybdenum or ruthenium catalysed cross-metathesis of acetal 20 with various alkenes gave the desired cross-metathesis products in high yields (Eq. 21) (Table 2). 

The alcohol moiety is produced in a different manner from that of the acid moiety. The alcohol moiety resembles the plant hormone jasmonic acid (JA) (26) generated from linolenoyl moiety of lipids via (13,S )-hydroperoxy-linolenic acid (22), (12.13,S )-epoxylinolenic acid (23), and 12-oxo-cis-10.15-phytodienoic acid (24) by the oxylipin or octadecanoid pathway (Fig. 3) [31]. In fact, 13C was incorporated at pyrethrolone (1) carbon positions that agreed with those predicted to be labeled when the alcohol moiety is produced via the pathway (Fig. 3) [30]. Figure 3 illustrates that m-jasmone (25) is hydroxylated to yield jasmololone (4), which is then dehydrogenated to yield pyrethrolone (5). However, it has not yet been determined if this is actually the case. 

Fig. 3 Biosynthetic pathways to pyrethrins. The identified enzymes involved in biosynthesis are shown in orange. Note that green leaf volatiles and the plant hormone jasmonic acid share the oxylipin pathway. The phosphate moiety is indicated as P ...

Nerolidol synthases of non-homoterpene emitting plants are not shown. JA, jasmonic acid. 

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