Developmental fate of the cyanogenic glucoside linamarin in Costa Rican wild lima bean seeds

CLEGG, D. O. ; CONN, E. E. ; JANZEN, D. H.

[s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
Published 1979
ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Medicine
Natural Sciences in General
Physics
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[Auszug] To determine the fate of this defensive secondary compound in young seedlings, we germinated seeds and monitored the linamarin content of the seedlings for 26 days. While the amount of linamarin per seedling remained constant, the distribution of the glucoside present initially only in the seed ...
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