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Toko, M., O'Neil, R.J. and Yaninek, J.S., 1994. Effect of cassava exudate and prey densities on survival and reproduction of Typhlodroraatus limonicus (Gar'man & McGregor) (Acari: Phytoseiidae) s.l., a predator of the cassava green mite, Mononychelh~" tanajoa (Bondar) (Acari: Tetranychidae). Exp. Appl. Acarol., 18: 221-231.

An antifungal compound with an infection-inhibiting activity was isolated from a rice Sekiguchi lesion (sl) mutant and identi®ed as the indole alkaloid tryptamine. Tryptamine inhibited not only spore germination and appressorium formation of Magnaporthe grisea at high concentrations (> 600 lg/ml) but also the infection hypha formation in onion cells at low concentrations (150±300 lg/ml). Tryptamine is a normal compound of the rice sl-mutant but accumulates further in rice with a mutant-type response (Sekiguchi lesion formation) to inoculation with M. grisea spores. A mutant type of response is involved in light-enhanced resistance. The accumulation of tryptamine was not induced, however, in rice with a wild-type response (blast lesion formation). This study strongly suggests that tryptamine plays an important role as a possible factor in light-enhanced resistance in the rice sl-mutants.