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MR. O. M. ABDELHAFEZ of the Fouad I Agricultural Museum, Dakki, Cairns, writes that when examining ‘neps’ taken from cotton yarn it was noticed that fuzz-hairs attached to testa fragments kept such stains as Iodine Green after washing while the lint-hairs lost the colour. Microtome sections of ovules started with Methyl Green and Congo Red Showed fuzz-hairs beginning to form on the fifth day after flowering, with blue or violet cytoplasm which contrasted sharply with the five-day-old lint-hairs, the walls of which were red. No fuzz-hairs were observed earlier than this.
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Fuzz-Hairs of Cotton-Seed. Nature 164, 432 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164432a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164432a0