Secondary Compounds in Plants: Primary Functions
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 110 (971) , 101-105
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283050
Abstract
Many natural products supposed by ecologists to exist as secondary metabolic products for protection of plants exist in dynamic equilibrium, with rapid turnover rates, involving cycles that include primary products such as sugars and amino acids. Therefore, natural selection of secondary chemicals may be for their role in primary metabolic processes as well as in defense.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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