Abstract
THE ability of saline extracts of certain plants to agglutinate human red cells was first noticed in 1888 (ref. 1), and this property has since been found in many plants, particularly in the Leguminosae2. Some plant agglutinins show blood group specificity3–5.
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DOWNING, H., KEMP, G. & DENBOROUGH, M. Plant Agglutinins and Mitosis. Nature 217, 654–655 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217654a0
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