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A Fungistatic Action of Coumarin

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VAN SUMERE et al. showed that coumarin affects the germination of wheat stem rust uredospores1, and Bellis showed2 that Penicillium jenseni and P. nigricans are able to grow on a modified Czapek's nutrient medium containing coumarin as the only one carbon source. So far as I am aware, no other experiments have been done to examine the ability of coumarin to regulate the growth of moulds*, in spite of the fact that some fungi normally produce coumarin precursors and derivatives3, and the level of coumarin-like substances increases in the fungus-attacked cell4.

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KNYPL, J. A Fungistatic Action of Coumarin. Nature 200, 800–802 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200800b0

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