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Formaldehyde in the plant kingdom
G Blunden1, B G Carpenter, M Adrian-Romero
1School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK.
Acta Biologica Hungarica
|October 20, 1999
Abstract:
Formaldehyde, at its dimedone adduct, formaldemethone, has been detected by thin-layer and high-performance liquid chromatography in extracts of all species tested of marine algae, macrofungi, lichens, bryophytes, pteridophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms. The yields of formaldehyde recorded in this study varied from 30 microg/g to 4060 microg/g, fresh weight.