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THE isolation of a crystalline chlorophyll–protein complex from clover was recently reported and illustrated by Takashima1. Spikes, Lumry and Anderson2 repeated the crystallization of this complex from thirty species of plants. We have also obtained material with a very similar appearance from many green leaves; for example, clover, Trifolium repens; cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata; bracken fronds, Pteridium aquilinum. In addition, an apparently crystalline chlorophyll–protein complex has been obtained from a species of alga, Chlamydomonas.
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Spikes, J. D., Lumry, R., and Anderson, D. R., “Investigations on the Reported Crystalline Chlorophyll–Lipoprotein from Green Leaves” (presented at Amer. Soc. Plant Physiologists, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, Ithaca, N.Y., Sept. 7–10, 1952) and cited by Lumry, R., Spikes, J. D., and Eyring, H., in “Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem.”, 4, 405 (1953).
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SHERRATT, H., EVANS, W. A Crystalline Chlorophyll–Protein Complex from Chlamydomonas . Nature 173, 540 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173540a0
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