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PREVIOUSLY1, I put forward the view that pinkish vacuoles are receptacles of enzymes for synthesis of various food reserves in plants, lower as well as higher; in support of this I produced evidence of synthesis of food reserves around the pinkish vacuoles of pyrenoids in Spirogyra and of synthesis of oil drops around pyrenoids in two diatoms. Additional evidence in favour of the view that pinkish vacuoles are receptacles of enzymes is now brought forward from two sources: (1) synthesis experiments; (2) plasmolysis experiments, in some fungi.
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Bose, S. R., Bot. Gaz., 104, 633 (1943).
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BOSE, S. Function of Plant Vacuoles. Nature 154, 488–489 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154488b0
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