This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Nucleotide metabolism was studied in apical 5.0 mm root tips of corn plants (Zea mays L., cv. Pioneer 3906) hydroponically cultured for 7 d ...

Plants can fully catabolize purine nucleotides. A firmly established central intermediate is the purine base xanthine. In the current widely accepted model of plant purine nucleotide catabolism, ...

So far as is known today, uric acid serves no biochemical function in the body other than being an end product of purine metabolism. The metabolically important purines, adenine and guanine, serve as ...