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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Plant Sugars (what do leaves make)
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Date: 28 Apr 89 23:29:02 GMT
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I remember reading an old Carolina Biological Supply catalog when I was in
high school which listed seeds for albino corn and albino tobacco.  These
plants are dead white because they have no chlorophyll.

To raise one, I believe you had to slice off part of a leaf and attach an
agar block rich in sugar (or some similar procedure, I am hazy on the details)

I would like to know what kind of sugar or sugars are the best emulation
of a leaf.  Glucose?  Fructose?  Sucrose?  Or would it make any difference?