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secondary metabolite

[′sek·ən‚der·ē mə′tab·ə‚līt]
(botany)
A natural chemical product of plants not normally involved in primary metabolic processes such as photosynthesis and cell respiration. Also known as secondary plant product.
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(1994) reported the HPLC analysis of various lichen secondary metabolite with photodiode array detector.
* Scientists have identified 2 plants--Euterpe oleracea and Centella asiatica--that produce secondary metabolites to help them survive some of the harshest environmental conditions.
Plants synthesize a diversity of low molecular weight, structurally complex chemical compounds, commonly known as secondary metabolites (Moore, Andrew, Kulheim, & Foley, 2014) These are present mainly under stress conditions, but their absence does not cause harmful effects to the plants (Edreva, 2005; Edreva et al., 2008; Khan, Aliabbas, Kumar, & Rajkumar, 2009).
Many factors including stresses like drought, nutrient deficiency and diseases ultimately down regulate the accumulation of secondary metabolites in plants.
No antioxidant activity was found in the hydroalcoholic extracts (HE) measured by FRAP, HRSA, and LPIA under equal concentrations with polarity fractions (Figure 1), while secondary metabolite contents, including TPC, TAC, and TSC, significantly varied between the five fractions.
KEYWORDS: Urinary catheter, Broad-spectrum biofilm inhibition, Anti-quorum sensing and Streptomyces secondary metabolites.
Inoculum age plays a vital role in induction and production of secondary metabolites as the secondary metabolites are induced in the late stationary phase of the bacterial growth.
Among secondary metabolites determined, the common secondary metabolites present in leaf and internode tissue were Toluene, a-sphinosterol, Tetradecane, Pentadecane, Hexadecane, Octadecane, Hentriactone, and 9,12-Octadecadienoicacid[7,7].
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