Nitrogen uptake

From: Aaron Hicks (ahicks@nmt.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 06 1997 - 19:12:55 PST 

Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 20:12:55 -0700 (MST)
From: Aaron Hicks <ahicks@nmt.edu>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg95$foo@default>
Subject: Nitrogen uptake

        *SNIP!
I was asked by an ecologist friend how she might measure the nitrogen budget
of a carnivorous pitcher plant. She wants to know how efficiently
nitrogen-containing compounds from the decaying/digesting prey in the pitcher
are absorbed and utilized by the plant.
        *SNIP!*

        This was snipped from a missive from a prof at my alma mater; he
suggests that labeled nitrogen is not viable (their NMR is only 80 Mhz),
and that GC-MS would be a bear due to sample workup.
        Anybody have any suggested techniques for determining nitrogen
uptake in Sarracenias?

        -AJHicks
        Wonk
        Socorro, NM

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