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Structure and Composition of Plant Cell Membranes

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HISTORICAL CONCEPTION OF MEMBRANE COMPOSITION THE complex structure and chemical composition of plant cell membranes were indicated in the reports of the earliest study of cells as biological units. Before 1850 the work of Payen1 had shown that different proportions of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen were obtained from some of the separable membrane constituents. During succeeding years, considerable progress was made in correlating chemical analyses with observed microscopic structural features of various types of membranes.

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  1. Director, Cellulose Laboratory, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Yonkers, New York

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FARR, W. Structure and Composition of Plant Cell Membranes. Nature 146, 153–155 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146153a0

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