Metabolic Conversion of L-Ascorbic Acid to Oxalic Acid in Oxalate-accumulating Plants

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Journal Plant Physiol

Specialty Physiology

Date 1975 Aug 1

PMID 16659288

Citations 15

Authors

J C Yang

F A Loewus

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Abstract

l-Ascorbic acid-1-(14)C and its oxidation product, dehydro-l-ascorbic acid, produced labeled oxalic acid in oxalate-accumulating plants such as spinach seedlings (Spinacia oleracea) and the detached leaves of woodsorrel (Oxalis stricta and O. oregana), shamrock (Oxalis adenopylla), and begonia (Begonia evansiana). In O. oregana, conversion occurred equally well in the presence or absence of light. This relationship between l-ascorbic acid metabolism and oxalic acid formation must be given careful consideration in attempts to explain oxalic accumulation in plants.

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