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IN previous publications1,2 some amino-acids, not naturally occurring, were shown to be chemotherapeutically active against certain fungal diseases of plants. Since no fungitoxic action of the compounds could be demonstrated in vitro or in the sap of treated plants, the increase in resistance of the plants might be explained as the result of changes in their metabolism caused by interference of the foreign substances.
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VAN ANDEL, O. Fluorophenylalanine as a Systemic Fungicide. Nature 194, 790 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194790a0
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