%0 Journal Article
%A Mei-Luan Wu
%T The choice of nitrogen sources by the cucumbers
%D 1979
%J Taiwania
%V 24
%N 1
%P 64-69
%U https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/614
%X The cucumbers were grown in three kinds of nutrient 150 ppm NO3--N, 150 ppm NH4+-N, and the mixture of 75 ppm NO3--N and 75 ppm NH4+-N, separately for seven days.  The best and the worst growth were in the nutrient of NO3--N and NH4+-N, respectively.  Although they took the same amounts of combined nitrogen from each nutrient, the better assimilation of NO3--N than NH4+-N in the cucumbers resulted in heavier dry weights, higher contents of total nitrogen, and higher soluble proteins contents in the leaves of cucumbers that grown in higher concentration of NO3--N.  The compositions of soluble proteins in the leaves of cucumbers were also influenced by nitrogen sources by showing their discrete electrophoretic patterns.
%M doi:10.6165/tai.1979.24.64