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The variation of free amino acids in anthers and pollen of Nicotiana alata Link et Otto has been examined during pollen development in vivo. The purpose was to find clues for optimizing an in vitro medium for cultivation of haploid plantlets from N. alata pollen. The quantitatively most important amino acids were proline, glutamic acid/glutamine, alanine and aspartic acid/asparagine. These exhibited similar patterns of variation during pollen development: first maximum (0.5 to 1.7 μmol per flower) at mitosis, then decrease during early binucleate stage (0.6 to 2.0 mmol per flower). Other amino acids were found in much smaller quantities (max 0.25 μmol per flower).
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