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Difference in the Metabolic Fate of Acetate and Ethanol fed to Higher Plant Tissues

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ETHANOL is known to be one of the end-products of sugar metabolism under fermentative conditions. It is also known that under certain conditions it can be utilized by plant tissues1–3. A number of enzymes have been described from various sources which can catalyse the oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde (alcohol dehydrogenase, catalase) and of acetaldehyde to acetate (aldehyde dehydrogenase, xanthine oxidase)4. Some of these enzymes are rather widely distributed in living tissues.

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  1. PAUL CASTELFRANCO: On leave from the Botany Department, University of California, Davis.

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    PAUL CASTELFRANCO, RENATO BIANCHETTI & ERASMO MARRÉ

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CASTELFRANCO, P., BIANCHETTI, R. & MARRÉ, E. Difference in the Metabolic Fate of Acetate and Ethanol fed to Higher Plant Tissues. Nature 198, 1321–1322 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1981321a0

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