Abstract
IT is safe to assume that there are certain fundamental resemblances in the behaviour of all living cells in virtue of their possessing the same ground plan of protoplasmic structure, and among all aerobic cells in virtue of a similar oxidative mechanism, as the recent work of Keilin suggests. Among all animal contractile cells, again, there are general resemblances. When, therefore, we consider the observations of Sir Jagadis Bose on plant movements from the point of view of general physiology, we have to decide whether the resemblances he finds are merely common properties of living protoplasm as such, or of excitable protoplasm, or contractile protoplasm; and whether there are specific differences between the processes of animal and plant.
The Motor Mechanism of Plants.
By Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. Pp. xxv + 429. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1928.) 21s. net.
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RITCHIE, A. The Movements of Plants. Nature 123, 672–674 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123672a0
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