B-vitamins are recognized as essential organic growth factors for many organisms, although little is known about their abundance and distribution in marine ecosystems. Despite their metabolic functions regulating important enzymatic reactions, the methodology to directly measure different B-vitamins in aquatic environments has only recently been developed. Here, we present the first direct meas...

B vitamins are the precursors of essential metabolic cofactors but are prone to destruction under stress conditions. It is therefore a priori reasonable that stressed plants suffer B vitamin deficiencies and that certain stress symptoms are metabolic knock-on effects of these deficiencies. Given the logic of these arguments, and the existence of data to support them, it is a shock to realize th...

B-vitamins are micronutrients that play an important role in various cellular processes of organisms, which only synthesized by plants, yeasts, and bacteria. Since animals humans lack the ability to synthesize B-vitamins, supplements vitamins from dietary B-vitamin producing bacteria required. In this study, we, for first time, shed some light on biosynthetic pathways involved folate (vitamin B...

In the presentations on the B Vitamins and Choline Report (IOM, 1998a), Steven H. Zeisel of the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (former member of the Panel on B Vitamins and Choline) addressed research on thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, and choline. Dr. Patrick Stover of Cornell University covered folate, vitamins B12 and B6, and biotin. Both presenters addressed lack of...