“…Plants can also contain free or nonesterified aromatic compounds, such as ferulic acid, p-coumaric acid, vanillic acid, and p-hydroxybenzoic acid in water extracts of alfalfa (Newby, Sablon, Synge, Casteele, & van Sumere, 1980), and ferulic acid, p-coumaric acid, and caffeic acid in various grasses and legumes (Cherney, Anliker, Albrecht, & Wood, 1989) ( Figure 5). In addition, b-glucosides of o-coumaric acid, coumarinic acid and melilotic acid have been identified in plants as well as their metabolic product, coumarin (Kosuge & Conn, 1959;Kosuge & Conn, 1961) ( Figure 5).…”