The odorous constituents of the cotton plant. Emanation of ammonia and trimethylamine from the living plant

✍ Scribed by Frederick B. Power; Victor K. Chesnut

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1925
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 139 KB
• Volume: 200
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(25)90074-9

✦ Synopsis

2. large increase in 30" organisms at the end of the first twentyfour hours and marked decrease at end of first forty-eight hours;

(3) gradual increase in thermophiles after first forty-eight hours; (4) gradual softening of corn and growth of mould, until at the end of the fourth day the corn was very mouldy, wet, and brown ;

(5) increase in acidity.

Corn which had remained in a pile over night increased in temperature to 50" C., and in bacterial count to 580,000 organisms per kernel. When left in a wagon over night, wet corn was hot and steaming, with a temperature of 55" C., and a bacterial count of ~o,ooo,ooo organisms per kernel by the following m.orning. Kernels were split and browned from the heat.