Abstract
The external oxygen concentration in which the greatest number of buds started to grow at 10–20 C rose during the storage season, from 2–4% in January to 14–23% in June. There was a similar rise in the concentration which was optimal for the rate of sustained sprout growth, from 4–5% to 17–20%. 5% O2, which stimulated growth early in the storage season, caused marked suppression late in the season, this effect showing earlier in tubers previously stored at 2 or 4 C than in those stored at 10 C. It is suggested that two effects of oxygen may be discernible, involving an optimally anaerobic reversible metabolism of a growth inhibitor and an aerobic requirement for growth. The possibilities are discussed that the enzyme system concerned in the former may be sulphydryl dependant, and that the direction of reaction may show parallelism with sucrose accumulation in the tuber.
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