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DISTURBANCES in the metabolism of phosphate and of carbohydrate in zinc-deficient tomato plants led Reed1 to suggest the occurrence of “some block in the enzyme system which controlled a fundamentally important process in the utilization of sugars”. Warburg and Christian2 had found a relationship between zinc and the enzyme zymohexase (aldolase) in yeast. Reed1 suggested that a similar relationship might exist in a complex organism such as a tomato plant.
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Reed, H. S., Amer. J. Bot., 33, 778 (1946).
Warburg, O., and Christian, W., Biochem. Z., 314, 149 (1943).
For method of aldolase assay, see Sibley, J. A., and Lehninger, A. L., J. Biol. Chem., 177, 859 (1949).
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QUINLAN-WATSON, T. Aldolase Activity in Zinc-deficient Plants. Nature 167, 1033–1034 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/1671033b0
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