Hi, I am looking for tropical crop plants that produce phytoalexins called stilbenes; phenolic chemicals, that among other things, include molecules that activate the SIRT1 deacetylase. For the moment I am restricting my search to plants of the Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae (pea group). Currently, I am looking at the literature on Cajanus cajan (pigeonpea) & Arachis hypogaea  (peanut, groundnut). I am also looking at literature on non-resveratrol stilbene activators of SIRT 1.

I know that some people on this group read voraciously; and thus might have come across stuff that I have missed. If you do, I'd appreciate it mightily if you send it to me offlist.

I have linked two relevant papers for context.

Thanks.

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Biosynthesis of plant-specific stilbene polyketides in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli - http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6750-6-22.pdf

Small molecule activators of SIRT1 as therapeutics for the treatment of type 2 diabetes - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2753457/pdf/nihms-139569.pdf/?tool=pmcentrez