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SINCE the publications of Willstätter and his co-workers upon anthocyan pigments during the years 1913–16, other investigators have turned their attention to this field of research. Though the later work has scarcely introduced any fresh facts of fundamental importance about this group of pigments beyond those already presented by Willstatter himself, yet it has given us much additional knowledge as to the distribution of the individual pigments among the flowering plants, especially in connexion with colour varieties of various species. The object of this article is to indicate how the chemical identification of the pigments may be correlated with certain broad aspects of the genetics of flower colour and the metabolic reactions connected with formation of anthocyan pigments hi the plant itself.
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The investigations of Karrer and his co-workers are published in Helv. Chim. Acta; those of Robinson and his co-workers in J. Chem. Soc. and Biochem. J. Details of the data on genetics can be found in the J. Genetics and Onslow's "Anthocyanin Pigments of Plants".
NATURE, 128, 373, Aug. 29, 1931.
Biochem. J., p. 1687, 1931.
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ONSLOW, M. Genetical and Biochemical Aspects of Anthocyan Pigments. Nature 129, 601–604 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129601a0
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