Abstract
Analyses of free amino acids in poplar (Populus gelrica) were carried out throughout a year to see the effect of low temperature on a system regulating amino acid metabolism in the tree. The results indicated that during the wintering phase arginine was the major amino acid both in bark and xylem, particularly in xylem, and that at the time of budding and growing glutamine and glutamate became dominant. Changes in the relative levels of glutamine (plus glutamate) and arginine to the total amino acids of the α-ketoglutarate family indicated the presence of a regulatory system annually controlling the synthesis between glutamine (plus glutamate) and arginine. The system appeared to be governed and sensitized by low temperatures. Neither a transition of the synthesis from arginine to glutamine (plus glutamate) nor budding occurred in the poplars which spent the winter months in a greenhouse.
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