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Effect of chemotherapeutically active amino acids on pathogenicity and growth of a wild type strain and a nutritional mutant of Cladosporium cucumerinum Ell. et Arth.

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The pathogenicity of a wild type strain and a nutritional mutant ofCladosporium cucumerinum was not changed after prolonged culturing on media containing D-serine, L-threo-β-phenylserine or DL-β-aminobutyric acid. Growth of the wild type strain was inhibited by D-serine, whereas the mutant was found able to utilize this compound. Both strains were able to grow in a medium containing L-threo-β-phenylserine as sole source of nitrogen. These results support the hypothesis that the increase in resistance to both strains of cucumber seedlings treated with the compounds just-mentioned is not due to a direct inhibition of the development of the pathogen.

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De pathogeniteit van een “wild type” stam en een mutant vanCladosporium cucumerinum werd niet beïnvloed door kweken op media, die D-serine, L-threo-β-phenylserine of Dl-β-aminoboterzuur bevatten. De groei van de “wild type” stam werd door D-serine geremd, terwijl de mutant deze verbinding als stikstofbron kon gebruiken. Beide stammen waren in staat te groeien in een medium dat alleen L-threo-β-phenylserine als stikstofbron bevatte. Deze resultaten steunen de hypothese dat de toename in resistentie van komkommerkiemplanten tegen beide stammen, veroorzaakt door behandeling met de genoemde verbindingen, niet het gevolg is van een directe remming van de ontwikkeling van het pathogeen.

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van Andel, O.M. Effect of chemotherapeutically active amino acids on pathogenicity and growth of a wild type strain and a nutritional mutant of Cladosporium cucumerinum Ell. et Arth.. Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology 75, 151–156 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02137210

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