A study of electrical potential differences and diffusion of electrolyte in plant tissue.

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Among the outstanding unsolved problems of biology is that of organization of plant tissue, for example, in the growth of a meristematic mass of cells to a fully differentiated and functional organ. As the concept of \biological f'ield\" seems to have analogies with that of \"electrical field\" and moreover as the latter has obvious possible organizing abilities (transport of matter electrolytically etc.) it was felt that an investigation of the function of the electric fields in living plant material might give a lead to the broader problem of organization. While some interesting results on the distribution of electromotive forces in and near apical meristems vere obtained it was thought that the detailed interpretation of these would depend on knowledge of the origin of the biolelectric phenomenon. The research in this way became related to several other general problems in plant physiology. Certain root potential differences (p.d.'s) have been f'ound to be connected with tho absorpt

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