Caffeine: also a fungal metabolite

A Bogo; P G Mantle

doi:10.1016/s0031-9422(00)00169-2

Caffeine: also a fungal metabolite

Phytochemistry. 2000 Aug;54(8):937-9. doi: 10.1016/s0031-9422(00)00169-2.

Authors

A Bogo¹, P G Mantle

Affiliation

¹ Biochemistry Department, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK.

PMID: 11014293
DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9422(00)00169-2

Abstract

Caffeine has been found to occur as a fungal metabolite and to be the principal alkaloid in sclerotia of Claviceps sorghicola, a Japanese ergot pathogen of Sorghum spp.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Caffeine / metabolism*
Claviceps / metabolism*
Mass Spectrometry

Substances

Caffeine