aurone metabolic process
id: GO:0051550
name: aurone metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways involving aurones, a series of plant flavonoids that provide a yellow colour to flowers. They have the basic skeletal structure of two benzene rings joined by a linear C3 chain (C6-C3-C6). Aurones exist mostly as 6-O-glucosides.
Child Functions
| id | name |
|---|---|
| GO:0051551 | aurone biosynthetic process |
Parent Functions
| id | name |
|---|---|
| GO:0009812 | flavonoid metabolic process |
| GO:0042440 | pigment metabolic process |
| GO:0046483 | heterocycle metabolic process |


