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AN investigation was recently carried out in this Laboratory into the best way of separating the fibre strands of various‘bast’ and ‘leaf’ fibres into their component elementary cells. The fibres were first treated by the chlorite method1 and then divided into two parts. One part was subjected to shaking with glass beads in a glass bottle, whereas the other part was shaken in a polythene bottle with short (about 2 cm.) lengths of glass rod covered with rubber ‘policemen’. Microscopical examination showed that excellent separation was effected by the second method without damage to the fibres, although damage was pronounced with the glass beads. It is possible that this method, which appears to be not generally known, may be capable of wider application for separating plant tissues.
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JARMAN, C. Mechanical Separation of Plant Tissues. Nature 174, 890 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174890b0
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