Term Information

Accession
GO:0051501
Name
diterpene phytoalexin metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
diterpene phytoalexin metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving diterpene phytoalexins, a class of diterpene formed in plants in response to fungal infection, physical damage, chemical injury, or a pathogenic process; they are sometimes referred to as plant antibiotics. Diterpenes are unsaturated hydrocarbons containing 20 carbon atoms and 4 branched methyl groups and are made up of isoprenoid units. Source: ISBN:0721662544, GOC:ai
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0051501 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of diterpene phytoalexin metabolic process (GO:0051501)
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diterpene phytoalexin metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  diterpenoid metabolic process (GO:0016101)
diterpene phytoalexin metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  phytoalexin metabolic process (GO:0052314)
Children of diterpene phytoalexin metabolic process (GO:0051501)
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diterpene phytoalexin biosynthetic process (GO:0051502) [is_a relation] is_a  diterpene phytoalexin metabolic process
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