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Secondary Metabolities

In general, the compounds produced by plants have been divided into primary metabolites and secondary metabolites: Primary metabolites are simple sugars, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids which are directly required by plant growth1,2. As their names suggest, primary metabolites are found in all plant cells and are the biomolecules underlying the existence of plants, […]

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