A localized effect of light on the protoplasmic viscosity of plant cells

A localized effect of light on the protoplasmic viscosity of plant cells

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ABSTRACT IF one half of a leaf of _Elodea densa_ is illuminated, the other half being screened off, a decrease in the permeability strictly localized to the illuminated area is observed1. This area accumulates methylene blue considerably more strongly than the unilluminated area. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink * Instant access to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support SIMILAR CONTENT BEING VIEWED BY OTHERS ULTRA-WEAK PHOTON EMISSION FROM DNA Article Open access 21 November 2024 EXCITATION ENERGY TRANSFER AND VIBRONIC COHERENCE IN INTACT PHYCOBILISOMES Article 19 September 2022 MODULATION OF NON-BILAYER LIPID PHASES AND THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THYLAKOID MEMBRANES: EFFECTS ON THE WATER-SOLUBLE ENZYME VIOLAXANTHIN DE-EPOXIDASE Article Open access 20 July 2020 REFERENCES * Lepeschkin, W. W., _Amer. J. Bot._, 17, 953 (1930). Article  Google Scholar  * Stålfelt, M. G., _Arkiv Botan._, A 33, No. 4 (1946). * Virgin, H. I., _Physiol. Plant._, 1, 147 (1948). Article  Google Scholar  * Virgin, H. I., _Exp. Cell Res._, Supp. 1, 79 (1949). * Voerkel, H., _Planta_, 21, 156 (1934). Article  Google Scholar  Download references AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Institute of Physiological Botany, University of Stockholm, HEMMING I. VIRGIN Authors * HEMMING I. VIRGIN View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE VIRGIN, H. A Localized Effect of Light on the Protoplasmic Viscosity of Plant Cells. _Nature_ 166, 485 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166485a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 16 September 1950 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/166485a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

ABSTRACT IF one half of a leaf of _Elodea densa_ is illuminated, the other half being screened off, a decrease in the permeability strictly localized to the illuminated area is observed1.


This area accumulates methylene blue considerably more strongly than the unilluminated area. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content,


access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn


more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink * Instant access to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS


OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support SIMILAR CONTENT BEING VIEWED BY OTHERS ULTRA-WEAK PHOTON EMISSION FROM DNA Article Open


access 21 November 2024 EXCITATION ENERGY TRANSFER AND VIBRONIC COHERENCE IN INTACT PHYCOBILISOMES Article 19 September 2022 MODULATION OF NON-BILAYER LIPID PHASES AND THE STRUCTURE AND


FUNCTIONS OF THYLAKOID MEMBRANES: EFFECTS ON THE WATER-SOLUBLE ENZYME VIOLAXANTHIN DE-EPOXIDASE Article Open access 20 July 2020 REFERENCES * Lepeschkin, W. W., _Amer. J. Bot._, 17, 953


(1930). Article  Google Scholar  * Stålfelt, M. G., _Arkiv Botan._, A 33, No. 4 (1946). * Virgin, H. I., _Physiol. Plant._, 1, 147 (1948). Article  Google Scholar  * Virgin, H. I., _Exp.


Cell Res._, Supp. 1, 79 (1949). * Voerkel, H., _Planta_, 21, 156 (1934). Article  Google Scholar  Download references AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Institute of Physiological


Botany, University of Stockholm, HEMMING I. VIRGIN Authors * HEMMING I. VIRGIN View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS


Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE VIRGIN, H. A Localized Effect of Light on the Protoplasmic Viscosity of Plant Cells. _Nature_ 166, 485 (1950).


https://doi.org/10.1038/166485a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 16 September 1950 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/166485a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be


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