RATE OF RESPIRATION AS RELATED TO AGE

Open Access

20 September 1926

journal article
research article
Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology

Vol. 10 (1) , 33-39
https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.10.1.33

Abstract

In the present paper it is shown that as the leaves of corn, sorghum, wheat, and oats increase in age there is a decrease in rate of respiration; but that as the leaves become still older (past about middle age) the rate gradually increases.