“…,An increased ABA level was found in the apical and lateral buds during SD treatment, while the changes in the leaves were generally the opposite, if any (Fig, 4, Tab, 4), ,'^lthough earlier work demonstrated an increase in inhibitor content in SD (Wareing and Saunders 1971), other studies ha\e failed to show such an effect (Lenton et al, 1972, Phillips et al, 1980, Barros and Neill 1986, Johansen et al, 1986, The controversy may be related to differences between species and ecotypes, or between the types of tissue analysed, \ birch of northern origin was studied in the present experiments, while tnuch more southern ones were studied by others (Lenton et al, 1972, Hocking and Hilhtian 19751, and latitudinal ecotypes of bttch ha\'e markedly different photoperiodic responses (Habjorg 1972), In their studies, Johansen et al, (1986) and Barros and Neill (1986) analysed whole shoots with leaves. Lateral buds have not been analysed before.…”