Definition of Phytins

1. phytin [n] - See also: phytin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phytins

phytanic
phytanic acid
phytanic acid alpha-oxidase
phytanic acid storage disease
phytanoyl-CoA ligase
phytanoyl-coenzyme A hydroxylase
phytanyl
phytase
phytases
phytate
phytates
phytelephantoid
phytelephas
phytic acid
phytin
phytins (current term)
phytivorous
phyto-
phytoaccumulation
phytoagglutinin
phytoalexin
phytoalexins
phytobacteria
phytobacterial
phytobacterium
phytobenthos
phytobezoar
phytobezoars
phytobiological
phytobiologist

Literary usage of Phytins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Henry Clapp Sherman (1918)
"The calcium, magnesium, and potassium salts of " phytic acid," * collectively known as phytates, phytins, or phytin, have for some years been regarded as ..."

2. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version by Herodotus (1875)
"Upon which he ordered tho dog to bo buried in the earth ; and from its body sprang a vine fertile in grapes. Henc« ho called his son phytins. ..."

3. Biochemical Bulletin by Columbia University (1912)
"If phytins are normally important constituents of seeds, one might assume a priori that these salts, if added to the substrate, would at some stage of the ..."

4. Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of (1911)
"There is strong evidence for the supposition that a class of organic phosphorus bodies, which are not phytins, exist in the transition stages of growth of ..."

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