User talk:Plantscientist

Plantscientist

You are evidently devoted to noni. I only want to see the truth on the noni page. The story about Heinicke's "discovery" or noni xeronines -- i.e., alkaloids (Heinicke: "... I eventually identified this ingredient as a new alkaloid to which I gave the name "xeronine.") -- is an important part of noni's reputation, however false that so-called discovery has proven. It is still how many in the public perceive as one of noni's important phytochemicals, so deserves to be there.

Also, as xeronine supposedly was an alkaloid which has characteristics in plant chemistry of foul smell and taste as everyone who has experienced noni recognizes, this also is a worthwhile comment.

But I'm not going to persist with this so will leave further editing on this section for now.

Kind regards. --Paul144 (talk) 19:20, 7 August 2008 (UTC)