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Science 9 June 1967:
Vol. 156. no. 3780, pp. 1362 - 1363
DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3780.1362
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Ethylene Formation from Ethyl Moiety of Ethionine

Keishi Shimokawa 1 and Zenzaburo Kasai 1

1 Research Institute for Food Science, Kyoto University, Japan

In plants, ethylene is formed in the presence of light and flavin mononucleotide from ethionine and S-ethylcysteine. The ethylene is formed from the ethyl moiety of ethionine.

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