A nitriloside is a naturally occurring or synthetic compound which upon hydrolysis by a betaglucosidase yields a molecule of a non-sugar, or aglycone, a molecule of free hydrogen cyanide, and one or more molecules of a sugar or its acid. There are approximately 14 naturally occurring nitrilosides distributed in over 1200 species of plants. Nitrilosides are found in all plant phyla from Thalloph...

WSL, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Ecosystem Boundaries Research Unit, Wetlands Research Group, Station 2, Lausanne, Switzerland, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory of Ecological Systems, Station 2, Lausanne, Switzerland, Plant and Soil Laboratory, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Department of Zoo...

The Charophyta have been frequently the object of study of the appearance of streaming of protoplasm, yet the fundamental questions regarding their physiology remained almost wholly untouched. The Charophyta, biologically, represent a fairly devel­ oped type among the Thallophyta. Regarding nutrition they remind us of higher plants because of the presence of rhizoids. According to Bi e r b e r ...