Abstract
The flavonoids are derived from the flavan or isoflavan skeleton (Fig. 1) and comprise a large group of secondary metabolites from higher plants (Harborne et al. 1975). In the literature the term flavonoid is often used to mean all flavonoids except anthocyanins and for the sake of convenience we have followed this usage. Anthocyanins are 3- or 3,5-glycosides of anthocyanidins (Fig. 2) and include the principal red (R), violet and blue (B) plant pigments (λ 520-545 nm).
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Beggs, C.J., Wellmann, E. (1994). Photocontrol of flavonoid biosynthesis. In: Kendrick, R.E., Kronenberg, G.H.M. (eds) Photomorphogenesis in Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1884-2_26
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