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Studies on oligosaccharins, carbohydrates possessing biological regulatory activities. Progress report, September 1985-July 1986

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5430214
Complex carbohydrates can no longer be relegated to ''mere'' structural or energy-storage roles in living organisms. This work has clearly demonstrated that oligosaccharide fragments of plant and fungal cell walls, display biological regulatory activities. The regulatory activities are specific and reproducible; oligosaccharides from fungi and plants have been shown to individually and synergistically elicit phytoalexins (antibiotics) in several species, as well as to elicit a plant hypersensitive-like response. Oligosaccharines have been shown to change the sex of flowers that are formed in a dioecious plant and to control morphogenesis in a tobacco explant system. 2 tabs.
Research Organization:
Georgia Univ., Athens (USA). Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
DOE Contract Number:
FG09-85ER13425
OSTI ID:
5430214
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/13425-1; ON: DE86014156
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English