Malonic Acid Biosynthesis in Bush Bean Roots. I. Evidence for Oxaloacetate as Immediate Precursor.

Malonic Acid Biosynthesis in Bush Bean Roots. II. Purification and Properties of Enzyme Catalyzing Oxidative Decarboxylation of Oxaloacetate.

Malonate as a Participant in Organic Acid Metabolism in Bush Bean Leaves.

Interest in malonic acid has been largely directed towards its role as a competitive inhibitor of succinic dehydrogenase. Very little attention has been directed toward the occurrence of malonic acid in plants or toward the metabolismi of malonic acid per se. Bentley ( 1 ) recently showed malonate to be present in some 18 species of legumes, one of which had concentrations as high as 2 mg/g dry...

Amino acid biosynthesis in mixed rumen cultures.

Mixed rumen micro-organisms, maintained in continuous culture readily incorporated labelled HCO3- and acetate into amino acids. Labelled propionate, in contrast, was utilized only for isoleucine biosynthesis, but failed to label other amino acids to any significant extent. Evidence was obtained showing that in these mixed, i.e. symbiotic, cultures foward tricarboxylic acid-cycle reactions only ...

The 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid cleavage reaction is the key regulatory step of abscisic acid biosynthesis in water-stressed bean.

Abscisic acid (ABA), a cleavage product of carotenoids, is involved in stress responses in plants. A well known response of plants to water stress is accumulation of ABA, which is caused by de novo synthesis. The limiting step of ABA biosynthesis in plants is presumably the cleavage of 9-cis-epoxycarotenoids, the first committed step of ABA biosynthesis. This step generates the C(15) intermedia...

Rice Bran as a Sorbent for Malonic Acid From Aqueous Solution

The adsorption of malonic acid on the rice bran was studied under various conditions such as temperature, contact time, adsorbent dose and concentration of adsorbate. Batch adsorption experiments were conducted and the result showed that the adsorption was dependent on all these parameters. The adsorption process obeys the Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherms. The adsorption capacity wa...