hypaphorine
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[edit]hypaphorine (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) An indole alkaloid, present in the fungus Pisolithus tinctorius in family Sclerodermataceae, that controls the elongation rate of root hairs.
- 2015, Santosh Kumar Maurya et al., “Śodhana: An Ayurvedic process for detoxification and modification of therapeutic activities of poisonous medicinal plants”, in Ancient Science of Life[1], volume 34, :
- Perhaps during Śodhana process, a major part of hypaphorine might have undergone transformation into abrine by reduction of its tertiary amino group into the primary amino group.