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Production of insect juvenile hormone III and its precursors in cell suspension cultures of the sedge, Cyperus iria L.

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 Juvenile hormones (JHs) are sesquiterpenoids that regulate metamorphosis and reproduction in most insect species. There has been one report of an insect JH in plants: JH III, methyl-10R,11-epoxy-3,7,11-trimethyl 2E, 6E-dodecadienoate, has been identified in two sedge species, Cyperus iria L. and C. aromaticus (Ridley) Mattf and Kük. This is the first report of callus and cell suspension cultures derived from C. iria. Farnesol and methyl farnesoate, two biosynthetic intermediates of JH III in insects, as well as JH III have been identified in suspension culture cell extracts by gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy. These cultures thus provide a useful in vitro model to investigate the biosynthesis of JH III in the sedge, C. iria.

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, 25 Harbord St., Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G5, Canada e-mail: stephen.tobe@utoronto.ca, Fax:+416-9783522, , , , , , CA

    J. C. Bede & S. S. Tobe

  2. CMAVE, United States Department of Agriculture, ARS, Gainesville, FL, P.O. Box 14565, 1700 SW 23 Dr1. Gainesville, FL 32604, USA, , , , , , US

    P. Teal

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Received: 30 October 1998 / Revision received: 11 February 1999 / Accepted: 3 March 1999

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Bede, J., Teal, P. & Tobe, S. Production of insect juvenile hormone III and its precursors in cell suspension cultures of the sedge, Cyperus iria L.. Plant Cell Reports 19, 20–25 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002990050704

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