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LUNDEGÅRDH1,2 has shown how the salt or anion respiration could provide a mechanism of accumulation by transporting anions into the cell. This hypothesis postulates a mechanism whereby anions are transported by an electron carrier (probably cytochrome) in the direction opposite to electrons, and whereby cations exchange for hydrogen ions ; both electrons and hydrogen ions enter into the formation of water in the respiratory process. Both ions of a salt are accumulated.
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ROBERTSON, R., WILKINS, M. Quantitative Relation Between Salt Accumulation and Salt Respiration in Plant Cells. Nature 161, 101 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161101a0
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