“…Some of these are directly involved in the metabolism of indole-3-acetaldehyde. They include three amine oxidases which can oxidize tryptamine to IAAld4 (7), an indoleethanol oxidase which oxidizes indole-3-ethanol to IAAld (8,13), IAAld reductases which reduce IAAld to IEt (1,3), and an IAAld oxidase which oxidizes IAAld to IAA (2). These demonstrations could be considered irrelevant to the actual biosynthesis of auxin unless it is shown that IAAld occurs naturally in the cucumber seedling.…”