Abstract
The amino acids are an important group of compounds concerned in the biosynthesis of a variety of nitrogen-containing plant metabolites, including proteins, enzymes, nucleic acids, hormones, chlorophyll, amines, alkaloids, cyanogenic glycosides and glucosinolates. Metabolic deamination of amino acids gives various products, including oxoacids, the terpene-like senecic acids found in the pyrrolizidine alkaloids (Chapter 9), and ethylene, an important growth hormone, formed from methionine.
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Vickery, M.L., Vickery, B. (1981). Compounds Derived from Amino Acids. In: Secondary Plant Metabolism. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86109-5_8
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