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Summary: The concentrations of free amino acids, particularly alanine, altered as stromata developed on germinating sclerotia. Lipid reserves in the sclerotium provided the principal carbon and energy source, and the nutrients required for stromatal growth appeared to be provided by the sclerotial tissues immediately beneath the point of attachment of the stroma. Alkaloid did not disappear from the sclerotia during germination. Very high levels of polyol, particularly mannitol, were attained in the stromata as germination progressed; the synthesis of polyol was usually accompanied by that of soluble sugars, notably glucose. In an attempt to ascertain the role of mannitol in germination, the relationship between polyol and soluble sugars was investigated in excised stromata after their submergence in buffered media containing a variety of soluble carbohydrates. Mannitol was synthesized under these conditions by way of phosphorylated intermediates, and chiefly in the capitulum, after rapid, and probably passive, absorption of the exogenously supplied sugar. The tissues equilibrated rapidly with the supplied carbohydrate, whose concentration was maintained by further uptake whilst mannitol was being synthesized. The concentrations of assimilated glucose and synthesized mannitol tended toward the same value during incubation and the results suggested that the synthesis was compartmentalized within the stromata. Very little exogenously supplied mannitol was assimilated.

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