Estimating the content of ashes, sugars and nitrogen in the folding sample and the flowering sample of cabbage, following results were obtained.
(1) The ash content: The amounts of ashes contained in total body of both samples are almost equal. The content of total leaves of the flowering sample is higher than that of the folding one, while the content of total stem of the latter seems to be higher than that of the former.
(2) The sugar content : The totalsugar content as well as the total-soluble-sugar content of the total body of both samples is equal, while the reducing-sugar content of the flowering sample is higher than that of the folding. The total-sugar, total-soluble-sugar, and reducing-sugar contents of the folding sample are higher than those of the flowering for total leaves, but the revers is the case for the total stem.
(3) The nitrogen content: The amounts of total nitrogen, protein-nitrogen, and rkon-protein ni-trogen contained in total body, total leaves, and total stem show no great difference.
(4) On the whole, differences of chemical constituents between the folding sample and flowering one are remarkable for upper leaves and upper stem. In the leaves more than 90 per cent of total sugar exists in soluble form, while in the stem about one half of total sugar exists in soluble form.
(5) Carbohydrate/nitrogen ratio for the total leaves is 8.2 in the flowering, and 10.1 in the folding, while for the total stem 11.8 in the flowering, and 8.4 in the folding.
These relations seem to offer a very interesting problem, we are looking for further researches.
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