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THE number of antimicrobial substances isolated from higher plants is small. Recently, studies with Tetragonia expansa or New Zealand spinach have shown it to contain a water-soluble component which we have tentatively named ‘tetragonin’. Tetragonin is characterized by a narrow spectrum, being active apparently specifically upon Saccharomyces spp.
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SCHIFFER, A., KOVÁCS, A. Tetragonin: a Yeast Growth-regulating Substance from Tetragonia expansa . Nature 183, 988–989 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183988b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/183988b0
