Considerable evidence indicates that acetaldehyde is released from the leaves of a variety
of plants. The conventional explanation for this is that ethanol formed in the roots is …

Abstract Pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC, EC 4.1. 1.1) and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH, EC
1.1. 1.1) are responsible for the anaerobic production of acetaldehyde and ethanol in higher …

An acetaldehyde dehydrogenase from germinating peanut cotyledons has been purified
and its properties have been studied. At the highest purification achieved the preparation is …

The metabolic origin and emission by the leaves of the tropospheric trace gas acetaldehyde
were examined in 4-month-old poplar trees (Populus tremula× P. alba) cultivated under …

Acetoin (3-hydroxy-2-butanon) production was investigated in extracts from suspension
cultured cells of carrot, tobacco, maize and rice. Crude extracts were able to catalyze acetoin …

Ethanol has previously been shown to be present in the xylem sap of flooded and
nonflooded trees. Because of the constitutive presence of alcohol dehydrogenase in the …

Emissions of acetaldehyde from tree leaves were investigated by proton‐transfer‐reaction
mass spectrometry (PTR‐MS), a technique that allows simultaneous monitoring of different …

Leaves of terrestrial plants are aerobic organs, and are not usually considered to possess
the enzymes necessary for biosynthesis of ethanol, a product of anaerobic fermentation. We …

Results presented in this paper strongly support the view that regulation of the key enzyme
of alcoholic fermentation, pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC), is achieved in a number of ways …

CAD (EC 1.1. 1.195) catalyzes the reduction of hydroxycinnamic aldehydes, para-coumaryl,
coniferyl, and sinapyl aldehydes to the corresponding alcohols (monolignols)(Higuchi …