“…C. rosicola converted FDP to ABA (Bennett et al, 1984), and C. rosicola and C. cruenta metabolized 2Z,4E-a-ionylideneethanol (6) and 2Z,4E-c-ionylideneethanol (7), respectively, to ABA (Neill et al, 1987;Oritani et al, 1985;Kato et al, 1987). However, putative intermediates between FDP and ionylideneethanol, 4,5-didehydrofarnesol and monocyclofarnesol, were not converted to ABA, and their production by these fungi has not been confirmed (Bennett et al, 1990;Yamamoto and Oritani, 1997;Yamamoto et al, 2001). This is a shortcoming in support of the direct pathway.…”