Abstract
Two bacteria, Klebsiella oxytoca and Erwinia uredovora, which constituted epiphytic microftora on yacon (Polymnia sonchifolia) leaves, converted hydroxycinnamic acids into hydroxystyrenes decarboxylatively. Hydroxycinnamate decarboxylase was extracted as crude protein from the bacterial cells, and was substrate-inducible. This decarboxylation was for the bacteria a detoxification of hydroxycinnamic acids of plants, but the metabolites were toxic to other test bacteria and fungi, including some phytopathogens. The possible ecological role of these epiphytic bacteria on the host-plant was discussed. from the viewpoint of their chemical interaction via the styrene derivatives.
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