
%0 Journal Article
%A Smart, MG 
%A O'brien, TP 
%T Observations on the Scutellum. III. Ferulic Acid as a Component of the Cell Wall in Wheat and Barley
%J Functional Plant Biology
%D 1979/08/01
%V 6
%N 4
%P 485-491
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PP9790485
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PP9790485 
%X Fractions enriched in the cell walls of wheat and barley scutella were prepared from isolated, ungerminated scutella. The cell-wall fractions were subjected to hot, alkaline extraction under an inert atmosphere. An ether extract was investigated for phenolic compounds by thin-layer chromatography using three solvent systems and by ultraviolet spectroscopy. The major autofluorescent component of the scutella of both wheat and barley is ferulic acid. There is apparently no p-coumaric acid. 
