Chemical control of white stem blight, Cephalosporiopsis cucurbitae Hamaya et Inaba, of pumpkin.

Biotransformation of quinoxaline by Streptomyces badius

“…Quinoxaline (1,4-diazanaphthalene) is a heterocyclic compound produced during cooking of various foods (Kinlin et al 1972;Mussinan and Walradt 1974;Aeschbacher et al 1989). It is weakly mutagenic in Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98 (Aeschbacher et al 1989) and inhibits the growth of some ciliate protozoa (Schultz and Cajina-Quezada 1982) and plant-pathogenic fungi (Izumi et al 1988).…”