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A number of guanidino compounds have been found in plants. Seeds of Leguminosae are especially rich sources of these compounds1. Among them are arginine, NG-monomethylarginine, NG, NG-dimethylarginine, NG,N,G-dimethyl- arginine,γ-hydroxyarginine, homoarginine, Y-hydroxyhomoarginine and canavanine. Arginine and homoarginine are decarboxylated to form agmatine and homoagmatine respectively, both of which have already been found in some plants1-2. Decarboxylation products of other guanidino amino acids, however, have never been detected in plants.
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Matsuzaki, S., Ramana, K., Isobe, K. (1989). γ-Guanidinooxypropylamine and NG-Methylagmatine: Novel Guanidinoamines Found in Seeds of Leguminous Plants. In: Mori, A., Cohen, B.D., Koide, H. (eds) Guanidines 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0821-8_3
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