ON BIOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION: LYSINE FORMATION IN HIGHER PLANTS
- 1 December 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 45 (12) , 1717-1721
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.45.12.1717
Abstract
With DL-aspartic-3-Cl4 acid, DL-aspartic-4-Cl4 acid, acetate-2-C14, and DL-alanine-1-C14 as tracers, lysine synthesis has been studied in a whole fern (Azolla), a whole flowering plant (Lemna), and in pollen, leaf, root, and petiole tissue cultures derived, respectively, from a gymnosperm (Ginkgo), a monocotyledon (Agave), and 2 dicotyledons (Melilotus, Helianthus). All these plant materials showed lysine-threonine-aspartic acid labeling patterns like those of the bacteria and the green algae previously examined, but unlike those of higher fungi.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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