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Science 29 October 1971:
Vol. 174. no. 4008, pp. 518 - 520
DOI: 10.1126/science.174.4008.518
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Potassium Flux: a Common Feature of Albizzia Leaflet Movement Controlled by Phytochrome or Endogenous Rhythm

Ruth L. Satter 1 and Arthur W. Galston 1

1 Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Leaflets close when potassium moves into dorsal and out of ventral pulvinule motor cells and open when the flux direction is reversed. This is true whether leaflet movement is controlled by an endogenous rhythm or by phytochrome.


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