SummaryTransverse slices of green banana fruit were vacuum-infiltrated with aqueous solutions of 14C-labelled metabolites and the non-metabolite a-methyl-D-glucoside immediately after cutting, and at 17 hr after cutting-i.e. near the peak of "induced" respiration.The The rate of uptake of acetate and malonate is rapid in slices both at 0 and 17 hrafter cutting, wheras the rate of uptake of citrate and D-glucose is low at 0 hr but rapid at 17 hr after cutting. a-Methyl-D-glucoside is taken up at a low and similar rate at both times. The patterns of release of 14C02 from 14C-Iabelled glucose, acetate, and malonate show that the metabolic responses induced by cutting begin within 3 hr after cutting.
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