Malva species

The results of labeling experiments in tissues and callus cultures of various Malva species indicate the sequence of reactions in Fig. 3 for the biosynthesis of fatty acids containing a three-membered carbocyclic ring (Yano et al., 1972a). Oleic acid is converted to dihydrosterculic acid, methionine, presumably as S-adenosylmethionine, being the methylene donor. The desat-... 

Although exogenous cyclopropenoid fatty acids inhibit desaturations of straight-chain saturated and, to some extent, also of unsaturated fatty acids in plant systems (James et al., 1968 Gurr, 1971), such an inhibitory effect is not apparent in the various tissues of Malva species where these types of fatty acids coexist (Smith and Bu Lock, 1965). 

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