Disks from pea leaves were floated on solutions of various substances; pisatin levels in the solutions and in the disks were measured after incubation. Filtrates from cultures of Ascochyta pisi and Mycosphaerella pinodes which increased accumulation were no more effective than were uninoculated media; filtrates from cultures of Penicillium expansum were ineffective. Increased accumulation by media depended almost entirely on their sugar content and probably was not caused by bacteria or fungi in solutions that greatly increased accumulation. Cupric chloride solution in the dark increased accumulation much less than expected, but in the dark, it was much more effective in the presence of sucrose. In the light cupric chloride alone had about the same effect as cupric chloride and sucrose in the dark, and sucrose had no additional effect. Similar results were obtained with mercuric chloride and sodium selenite. Apart from sucrose, galactose, glucose and raffinose also greatly increased accumulation of pisatin in disks treated with cupric chloride in the dark; arabinose, galacturonic acid, gluconic acid, dulcitol, mannitol, rhamnose and xylose were much less effective. In the absence of cupric chloride, galactose, glucose and raffinose increased accumulation in the dark to about the same degree as did glucose. Acetate, cinnamate, phenylalanine, tyrosine and glycine had little effect on accumulation in the dark, with and without cupric chloride. Amounts of pisating in solutions below disks were 1·5 to 2·9 times those in disks. Solutions that greatly increased accumulation when applied to the surface of disks were ineffective when infiltrated into disks. Solutions of sucrose and cupric chloride did not increase accumulation when sprayed on young plants.
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