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Longianone, a metabolite of Xylaria longiana, is an isomer of the well known fungal toxin, patulin; it is demonstrated that longianone is biosynthesised from 6-methylsalicylic acid in a pathway closely related to that found in patulin biosynthesis.
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Goss et al. (1999) studied this question.
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