dormin

Japanese: dormin
dormin

...The following year, J. Cornforth and his team confirmed its structure through synthesis. Meanwhile, completely independently of this, in England, P. F. Wareing and his team were conducting research into the substance that causes bud dormancy in maple trees (Acer pseudoplatanus) . They isolated this substance in crystal form and named it dormin (1965). Eventually, it was discovered that the substances that cause these two physiological phenomena, which at first glance seem to be completely different, are in fact the same thing, and it was thereafter called abscisic acid. ...

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Japanese:

…その翌年,コーンフォースJ.Cornforthらが合成によってその構造を確認した。他方,これとはまったく独立にイギリスでは,ウェアリングP.F.Wareingらによって,カエデAcer pseudoplatanusの芽の休眠を引き起こす物質は何かを追究する研究が行われており,かれらはこの物質を結晶状にとり出し,ドーミンdorminと命名した(1965)。やがて,一見まったく異なるように思われるこれら二つの生理学的現象を引き起こす物質が,実は同一のものであることがわかり,以後アブシジン酸と呼ばれることとなった。…

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