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IN a letter in NATURE of February 23, p. 236, under the above title, Prof. H. H. Dixon and Mr. N. G. Ball put forward the view that the wood of the vascular bundles provides the main path for the removal of the organic materials formed in foliage leaves to places of storage or conversion, the structure, form, and arrangement of the bast (phloem) being regarded as precluding any important longitudinal transmission within it.
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MANGHAM, S. Transport of Organic Substances in Plants. Nature 109, 476–477 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109476b0
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