Assertion: benzoic acid | /r/AtLocation | higher plants
Facets:
value: by degradative processes
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: It is now generally accepted that benzoic acids (phenylcarboxylic acids) are produced in higher plants by degradative processes, either by true catabolism of complex natural products (e.g., flavonoids) or, in more anabolically orientated metabolic sequences, by side-chain degradation of cinnamic acids (phenylacrylic acids); the substitution pattern of the benzoic acid is thus determined by that of the cinnamate precursor.