... Covello11Plant Biotechnology Institute, Saskatoon, SK, Canada;2Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaThe mechanism by which the fatty acid (1,4)-desaturase of Calendula ... Mechanism of 1,4-dehydrogenation catalyzed by a fatty acid (1,4)-desaturase of Calendula of cinalisDarwin W. Reed1, Christopher K. Savile2, Xiao Qiu1, Peter H. Buist2and Patrick ... 10(E),12(E)-tetradecadienoate by initial H-abstraction at C10 and 11(E)-tetradecenoateto 9(Z),11(E)-tetradecadienoate by initial oxidative attackat C9 [39]. Whether these two transformations are catalyzed by separate...