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Acid‐Soluble Nucleotides and Ribonucleic Acid of Different Corn Inbreds and Single‐Cross Hybrids 1
Author(s) -
Cherry Joe H.,
Hageman R. H.,
Rutger John N.,
Jones J. B.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1435-0653
pISSN - 0011-183X
DOI - 10.2135/cropsci1961.0011183x000100020013x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , biology , computer science
THE role of nucleotides and ribonucleic acid (RNA) in cellular growth and metabolism forms an increasingly important field of study in biology. Nucleotides participate in and regulate all phases of metabolism (10); they also have a major role in trapping, conserving, and transferring energy in living systems. During the past few years many nucleotides have been isolated from plant tissue. Bergkvist (2), and Cherry and Hageman (4) separated the nucleotides from wheat and corn plants, respectively, using anion exchange chromatography. The tri-, di-, and monophosphates of adenosine, guanosine, uridine, and cytidine were identified. Bergkvist (3) has shown that different species of mushrooms contain different quantities and kinds of nucleotides. However, little information is available regarding amounts of various nucleotides from different plants of the same species. Smillie and Krotkov (18) recently reported that RNA serves as an index of the metabolic activity of pea leaves. The leaf capacity for oxidative phosphorylation and photosynthetic phosphorylation followed the ribonucleic acid level.