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The Stimulation of Plant-growth by Electric Fields

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THE experiments on the electric stimulation of vegetable growth, initiated in this country by Sir Oliver Lodge and others, are generally held to have given a substantial result. But there does not seem to be any definite view among botanists and experimenters as to the way in which it is brought about.

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L., J. The Stimulation of Plant-growth by Electric Fields. Nature 101, 4 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/101004a0

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