Open AccessAnalytic studies in plant respiration. III.—Formulation of a catalytic system for the respiration of apples and its relation to oxygen
Publication year - 1928
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series b, containing papers of a biological character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9185
pISSN - 0950-1193
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.1928.0054
Subject(s) - respiration , nitrogen , extension (predicate logic) , production (economics) , relation (database) , realism , oxygen , chemistry , catalysis , environmental chemistry , botany , computer science , philosophy , organic chemistry , epistemology , biology , economics , data mining , macroeconomics , programming language
This paper is an extension of the analytic study started in the second paper of this series, which dealt with the respiration of apples in nitrogen. In Part I of that paper the phenomena of CO2 -production in nitrogen were described empirically, as they presented themselves in our records. Part II was devoted to examination of numerical relations, such as ratios and differences, that could be established between CO2 -production in air and CO2 -production in nitrogen. This present paper is, in effect, Part III of the analysis, but it starts out on new lines though use is made of various significant ratios established in Part II. We here attempt a more realistic analysis of the phenomena than was possible when attention was concentrated merely upon CO2 -production. This advance in realism is based upon bringing into our survey the whole drift of the metabolites involved in respiration and picturing this drift as a system of catalysed reactions.