Abstract
[2,4-Dihydroxy-7-methoxy-2H-1,4-benzoxazin-3(4H)-one] DIMBOA was extracted with ethyl acetate from acidified water homogenates of corn (Zea mays L.) seedlings. Pure DIMBOA or ethyl acetate extracts of corn tissue were added to bacterial growth medium at five concentrations (measured as hydroxamates). DIMBOA and corn extracts were more inhibitory to soft rot bacteria (Erwinia spp.) that are nonpathogenic to corn than to soft rot bacteria that are corn pathogens. The inhibitory activity of DIMBOA was similar to that of the ethyl acetate extracts. Both corn extracts and DIMBOA prolonged the lag phase of bacterial growth without significantly changing log phase growth rates. At various concentrations of the inhibitor, 50 to 100% of the activity of corn extracts inhibitory to different bacterial isolates was attributable to DIMBOA. Extracts of DIMBOA-deficient plants (genotype bxbx) were not inhibitory to Erwinia spp. It was concluded that DIMBOA is the major active component in those corn extracts which are inhibitory to soft rot Erwinia species.
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