
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Thorpe, N 
A1  - Milthorpe, FL 
T1  - Respiration and Alanine Metabolism in <I>Commelina</I> Epidermis
JF  - Functional Plant Biology
JO  - Functional Plant Biol.
Y1  - 1986
VL  - 13
IS  - 2
SP  - 275
EP  - 280
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PP9860275 
N2  - [U-14C]alanine offered to epidermal peels was readily metabolized, mostly via pyruvate and the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Some two-thirds of the radioactivity absorbed was respired and some 2-4% converted to sucrose and ethanol-insoluble compounds. Nevertheless, the calculated amounts of alanine respired were much less than expected. Despite a large degree of deamination and reamination, the fate of the imported amino acid groups is unknown but we believe they are re-exported to the mesophyll, possibly as aspartate during stomatal closing. 
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