Mitochondria in plants

Autor: Earl H. Newcomer
Rok vydání: 1940
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Zdroj: The Botanical Review. 6:85-147
ISSN: 1874-9372
0006-8101
DOI: 10.1007/bf02879341
Popis: It is plain from this survey that the opinions of the most competent investigators are in conflict on many important points. The tendency of many workers to dogmatize upon the physiological implications of the chondriome from morphological studies alone and to accept too implicitly the image presented by a cell fixed with various chemicals without adequately studying the effects of these chemicals upon the polyphase, colloidal system comprising the protoplast, has not contributed to a clearer understanding of the problem. There has been a plethora of isolated investigations and interpretations but no new experimental technic has brought us noticeably nearer to a solution of the problem. The significance of mitochondria in metabolism, reproduction and evolution, and their status in the cell community, whethersui generis or evanescent in nature, remain to be more adequately demonstrated. Opinion is still divided concerning them, and there is an equivalence of testimony thus far for many theories.
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