The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 14, 631-641,
Copyright © 1931 by The Rockefeller University Press
TEMPERATURE CHARACTERISTICS FOR THE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION OF GERMINATING SEEDS OF LUPINUS ALBUS AND ZEA MAYS
Pei-Sung Tang 1
1 From the Laboratory of General Physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge
The rate of oxygen consumption by germinating seeds of Lupinus albus and of Zea mays was studied as a function of temperature (726°C.). The Warburg manometer technique was used, with slight modifications. Above and below a critical temperature at 19.5°C. the temperature characteristic for oxygen consumption by Lupinus albus was found to be µ = 11,700± and 16,600 respectively. The same critical temperature was encountered in the case of Zea mays, with temperature characteristics µ = 13,100± above and µ = 21,050 below that temperature.
Accepted on March 28, 1931