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LITTLE experimental work has been done on the biosynthesis of the phthalideisoquinoline, the benzylisoquinoline, and the protoberberine alkaloids. All these should be derived, according to biogenetic hypothesis, from two units of tyrosine1 or two units of shikimic acid2.
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GEAR, J., SPENSER, I. Biosynthesis of Hydrastine. Nature 191, 1393–1395 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1911393a0
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