Abstract
A highly plausible solution to the longstanding puzzle of how plants produce vitamin C been advanced by researchers in England. From the University of Exeter's department of biological sciences, graduate student Glen L. Wheeler, undergraduate student Mark A. Jones, and lecturer Nicholas Smirnoff provide evidence for a pathway based on Lgalactose [ Nature , 393 , 365 (1998)]. Given the importance of vitamin C in plant growth, development, and protection, as well as in human nutrition, the work represents one of the most important discoveries in plant science in recent times, says Christine H. Foyer of the Institute of Grassland & Environmental Research, Aberystwyth, Wales, and an expert on the protective effects of ascorbic acid on plants. The Exeter work a major breakthrough, concurs Robert L. Last, who points out that despite the abundance of vitamin C in plants, the pathway has been very difficult to sort out. Last is a professor of genetics at ...
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