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WAIN and his colleagues1 have clearly shown that the growth-regulating activity in plants of substituted ω-phenoxyalkylcarboxylic acids containing an uneven number of side-chain methylene groups can be explained by β-oxidation of the fatty acid side-chain within the plant to give the corresponding substituted acetic acids.
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WEBLEY, D., DUFF, R. & FARMER, V. Formation of a β-Hydroxy Acid as an Intermediate in the Microbiological Conversion of Monochlorophenoxybutyric Acids to the Corresponding Substituted Acetic Acids. Nature 179, 1130–1131 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1791130a0
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