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IN a recent paper from this laboratory1 it was shown that sucrose is formed both from glucose and from fructose when starch-depleted leaves of red clover or wheat plants are placed in 10 per cent solutions of these hexose sugars in the dark. This result was explained by assuming that glucose and fructose are transformed into each other in plant tissue.
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Virtanen, A. I. and Nordlund, M., Biochem. J., 28, 1729; 1934.
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NURMIA (NORDLUND), M. Interconvertibility of Glucose and Fructose in Plant Tissue. Nature 135, 345 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135345b0
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