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glucosinolate en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any glycosinolate in which the sugar component is glucose.
   • Intakes of indoles or their parental glucosinolates, may have beneficial health effects as well as toxicological effects. 1999, Lars Ove Dragsted, Naturally Occurring Antitumourigens, page 41:
   • Glucosinolates are a group of plant thioglucosides found principally among members of the Cruciferae. 1991, Alan J. Duncan, “Chapter 6: Glucosinolates”, in J. P. Felix D'Mello, C. M. Duffus, John H. Duffus, editors, Toxic Substances in Crop Plants, page 126:
   • Sulphur availability has a larger effect on the content of glucosinolates, sulphur containing secondary metabolites, in both the vegetation and the seed of oilseed rape plant. 2003, K. C. Walker, E. J. Booth, “Sulphur Nutrition and Oilseed Quality”, in Y.P. Abrol, A. Ahmad, editors, Sulphur in Plants, page 323:

Forms

Deriveds

methylthiobutylglucosinolate · desulfoglucosinolate

Relateds

glucose · glycosinolate

Synonyms

glucosinate