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IN an investigation, first into the composition of the internal atmosphere of successively lower regions of the plant body of Equisetum limosum, and secondly into the respiratory metabolism of the perennating rhizomes of this plant, a very interesting relationship between lactic acid formation and carbon dioxide fixation has emerged.
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BARBER, D. Lactic Acid Formation and Carbon Dioxide Fixation. Nature 180, 1053 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1801053a0
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