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SOME results of the application of paper chromatography to the detection and estimation of amino-acids and sugars in the honey-dew excreted by aphids and coccids have been published recently by Gray1, Maltais and Auclair2, and others. What has remained obscure is the relation between the composition of the honey-dew and that of the plant sap on which these insects are feeding.
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MITTLER, T. Amino-Acids in Phloem Sap and their Excretion by Aphids. Nature 172, 207 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172207b0
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