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Incorporation of Hydrocyanic Acid labelled with Carbon-14 into Asparagine in Seedlings

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IN the course of work on the biosynthesis of cyano-glucosides in plants, it was observed in feeding experiments that young seedlings of a number of plant species incorporate radioactivity from H14CN into asparagine to a considerable extent.

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  1. G. W. BUTLER: U.S. Public Health Service International Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

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BLUMENTHAL-GOLDSCHMIDT, S., BUTLER, G. & CONN, E. Incorporation of Hydrocyanic Acid labelled with Carbon-14 into Asparagine in Seedlings. Nature 197, 718–719 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197718a0

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