Abstract
It was proved that the canavanine present during germi-nation of alfalfa both in the dark and in the light does not decrease and in fact increases a little, despite earlier papers having described the disap-pearance of canavanine during germination of alfalfa (1, 2). The presence of canavanine in alfalfa sprouts was confirmed by isolation and compar-ison with an authentic specimen. Deaminocanavanine was also isolated from both seeds and sprouts of alfalfa, but it is not clear whether this canavanine derivative is a natural product or an artifact formed from canavanine during isolation procedures.
