taxus cuspidata/抗生物質

Two new fusicoccane diterpenes, named periconicins A (1) and B (2), with antibacterial activities have been isolated by bioassay-guided fractionation from an endophytic fungus Periconia sp., collected from small branches of Taxus cuspidata. The structures of the new compounds were determined by

A cell line of Taxus cuspidata has been transformed with wild-type Agrobacterium rhizogenes ATCC strain 15834 containing binary vector pCAMBIA1301 and, separately, with A. tumefaciens strain EHA105 containing binary vector pCAMBIA1305.2. Additionally, a cell line of T. chinensis has been transformed