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VACUOLAR MASS‐FLOW IN THE FLORAL HAIRS OF STAPELIA
Author(s) -
Benda G. T. A.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1964.tb06700.x
Subject(s) - biology , cytoplasmic streaming , botany , flow (mathematics) , mass flow , water flow , turbulence , anatomy , mechanics , microbiology and biotechnology , physics , cytoplasm , environmental engineering , engineering
The flow of vacuolar material was observed in the single‐celled hairs of the corolla of Stapelia grandiflora when the tip region of a hair was cut away and the basal region was supplied with water. The vacuolar flow was a bulk flow independent of the concomitant protoplasmic streaming. The observation has been interpreted in terms of Münich's model for the translation of diffusion into mass‐flow.