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Growth Repression of Higher Plants by 2-Pyridinethiol, 1-Oxide.

Author(s) -

A. G. Norman

Publication year - 1957

Publication title -

plant physiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.554

H-Index - 312

eISSN - 1532-2548

pISSN - 0032-0889

DOI - 10.1104/pp.32.1.16

Subject(s) - potency , antifungal , broad spectrum , psychological repression , chemistry , antibacterial activity , antibiotics , microorganism , plant growth , natural product , biochemistry , biology , bacteria , microbiology and biotechnology , combinatorial chemistry , in vitro , botany , genetics , gene , gene expression

The compound 2-pyridinethiol, 1-oxide and its salts have been reported to have pronounced antibacterial and antifungal activity of a type that, were it a microbiological product, would cause it to be classed as a broad-spectrum antibiotic (5, 8). This property is shared by a number of other cyclic thiohydroxamic acids, variously substituted, though some are much more active than others. The high potency of this grouping, and. the diversity of microorganisms to which compounds containing it are inhibitory, suggest interference with some essential metabolic process. Furthermore, certain antibiotics of comparable potency have been found to repress growth in some plant systems (1, 3, 4). Accordingly, the activity of 2-pyri-

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