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GREEN leaves of Aesculus hippocastanum and of Ficus elasticus contain mixtures of castaprenol-10, -11, -12 and -13 and ficaprenol-10, -11, -12 and -13 respectively1,2. The wood of these plants contains no polyprenols, but that of Betula verrucosa yields esters of betulaprenols -6, -7, -8 and -9 (refs. 3 and 4). It was of interest to investigate whether Betula leaves contained prenols of the latter type or, like many other higher plants5, of the castaprenol-type.
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WELLBURN, A., HEMMING, F. Polyprenols of Wood and Leaf Tissue of the Silver Birch, Betula verrucosa. Nature 212, 1364–1366 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121364b0
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