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Biosynthesis of the Belladonna Alkaloids

Nature volume 159, page 196 (1947)Cite this article

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DR. W. O. JAMES, in his interesting paper on “Biosynthesis of the Belladonna Alkaloids”1, states that the embryos and endosperms of the resting seeds of Atropa and Datura are without alkaloids, but that the latter appear at an early stage of germination.

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  1. Nature, 158, 654 (1946).

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MITCHELL, W. Biosynthesis of the Belladonna Alkaloids. Nature 159, 196 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159196a0

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