Abstract
Ascorbic acid induced rapid sucrose absorption accompanied by increased keto acid content and respiration rate. Lower concentrations of the vitamin activated glucosan and galactosan accumulation while an increase of concentration of the drug above 20 p.p.m. attenuated the former and furthered the latter with a simultaneous increase in the disaccharide content. In all cases, the acid had no effect on either the free or conjugated monosaccharides, recorded in this investigation, but increased the nucleoprotein content to a constant value regardless of the variation of concentration of the vitamin. The gain in dry weight of ascorbic acid-treated mats did not account for the high sugar uptake, suggesting an alteration in the pathways of carbohydrate metabolism.
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