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Ferulate esters of higher fatty alcohols and allelopathy inKalanchöe daigremontiana
1The Plant Cell Research Institute, Inc., 6560 Trinity Court, 94568, Dublin, California.
Abstract:
Ferulate esters of normal C22-C30 alcohols were found in the root extract ofKalanchöe daigremontiana and the freen-C30 alcohol, triacontanol, was found on the leaves. Ferulic acid was isolated from the vermiculite in which plants were grown. Whole plant and tissue culture experiments were done to investigate the role of ferulic acid as an allelochemical and of triacontanol as a plant growth regulator inK. daigremontiana and other bioassay systems. No positive growth responses to triacontanol were observed, but inhibitation of growth response of plantlets by ferulic acid was seen.
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