Amino Acid Content of Corn Silks in Relation to Resistance to Corn Earworm
- 1 December 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 56 (6) , 902
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/56.6.902
Abstract
Silks of corn inbred lines resistant and susceptible to the corn earworm, Heliothis zea, were analyzed for free amino acids. The following 16 amino acids were found in the silks of both inbreds: aspartic acid, glutamic acid, serine, glycine, asparagine, glutamine, lysine, histidine, threonine, alanine, beta-alanine, tyrosine, gamma-amino butyric acid, methionine, leucine, and proline. Five additional nin-hydrin spots were present in chromatograms of extracts from both inbreds but were not identified. No attempt was made to determine the amino acids quantitatively.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: