Antimicrobial Activity of Extractable Conifer Heartwood Compounds Toward Phytophthora ramorum

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• 关键词：Sudden oak death ; Fungicide ; Tropolone ; Monoterpene ; Sesquiterpene
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Ecology
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：November, 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：33
• 期：11
• 页码：2133-2147
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Ethyl acetate extracts from heartwood of seven western conifer trees and individual volatile compounds in the extracts were tested for antimicrobial activity against Phytophthora ramorum. Extracts from incense and western redcedar exhibited the strongest activity, followed by yellow-cedar, western juniper, and Port-Orford-cedar with moderate activity, and no activity for Douglas-fir and redwood extracts. Chemical composition of the extracts varied both qualitatively and quantitatively among the species with a total of 37 compounds identified by mass spectrometry. Of the 13 individual heartwood compounds bioassayed, three showed strong activity with a Log₁₀ EC₅₀ less than or equal to 1.0 ppm (hinokitiol, thymoquinone, and nootkatin), three expressed moderate activity ranging from 1.0–2.0 ppm (nootkatol, carvacrol, and valencene-11,12-diol), four compounds had weak activity at 2.0–3.0 ppm [α-terpineol, valencene-13-ol, (+)-β-cedrene, (−)-thujopsene], and three had no activity [(+)-cedrol, δ-cadinene, and methyl carvacrol]. All of the most active compounds contained a free hydroxyl group, except thymoquinone. The importance of a free hydroxyl was demonstrated by the tremendous difference in activity between carvacrol (Log₁₀ EC₅₀ 1.81 ¡À 0.08 ppm) and methyl carvacrol (Log₁₀ EC₅₀ >3.0 ppm). A field trial in California, showed that heartwood chips from redcedar placed on the forest floor for 4 months under Umbellularia californica (California bay laurel) with symptoms of P. ramorum leaf blight significantly limited the accumulation of P. ramorum DNA in the litter layer, compared with heartwood chips from redwood.