Abstract
The esterified triterpenes extracted from the stem of Hoya diversifolia
were found to represent the latex triterpenes. The triterpene content of
the five apical internodes was fairly constant, ranging from 0.4-0.5 mg
cm⁻¹ stem in growing plants and values of 0.52-0.60 mg cm⁻¹ were obtained
from slowly or non-growing plants. When [¹⁴C]sugars were absorbed
by
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