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MICROCHEMICAL tests on the assimilating cells of several plants indicate a considerable concentration of hexoses in the chloroplasts, or in the protoplasm immediately surrounding them. Other lines of experiment suggest that while sucrose is concentrated in the large vacuoles, invertase is held apart from it in the protoplasm.
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DIXON, H., MASON, T. The Primary Sugar of Photosynthesis. Nature 97, 160 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097160b0
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