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From: kanov@bimacs.BITNET (Mechael Kanovsky)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Plant Sugars (what do leaves make)
Message-ID: <855@bimacs.BITNET>
Date: 8 May 89 14:42:35 GMT
References: <17723@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: kanov@bimacs.UUCP (Mechael Kanovsky)
Organization: Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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In article <17723@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>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?

Plants may produce many kinds of sugars but they all love glucose :-)

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