Planteome: Term Details for "sorbitol metabolic process" (GO:0006060)

Accession: GO:0006060
Name: sorbitol metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: sorbitol metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving sorbitol (D-glucitol), one of the ten stereoisomeric hexitols. It can be derived from glucose by reduction of the aldehyde group. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0006060 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to sorbitol metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to sorbitol metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for sorbitol metabolic process.
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subject	relation	object
sorbitol metabolic process	is_a	hexitol metabolic process (GO:0006059)

subject	relation	object
sorbitol catabolic process (GO:0006062)	is_a	sorbitol metabolic process
sorbitol biosynthetic process (GO:0006061)	is_a	sorbitol metabolic process