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SNOW1 has confirmed my discovery that the propagation of stimuli in the stem of the so-called Sensitive Plants is due to the transport of a hormone in the water of the tracheæ.2 He, however, comes to the conclusion that in the leaves there is another and more rapid means of conduction of stimuli. This function he provisionally assigns to protoplasmic processes.
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RICCA, U. Transmission of Stimuli in Plants. Nature 117, 654–655 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117654a0
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