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ALTHOUGH phloroglucinol itself seldom occurs in plants it has been implicated in the biosynthesis of ring A of the flavonoid compounds1,2. In the course of a study of the metabolism of the glucoside, phloridzin, in Malus, leaf disks were fed phloroglucinol together with glucose labelled with carbon-14, and although phloridzin synthesis was unaffected a new compound was detected in chromatograms which has been tentatively identified as phlorin3, the glucoside of phloroglucinol.
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HUTCHINSON, A., ROY, C. & TOWERS, G. Synthesis of Phlorin and other Phenolic Glucosides by Plant Tissues. Nature 181, 841–842 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181841a0
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