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THE hatching factor of the potato root eelworm has been shown to possess certain affinities with the cardiac glycosides1 due, presumably, to the unsaturated lactone ring it is thought to contain2. The factor is contained in diffusates from the roots of growing potato plants3; but it has recently been shown that it can also be obtained from their leaves4. On the other hand, although the presence of cardiac substances in the leaves of the foxglove has been known for centuries, diffusates from their roots do not appear to have been examined: I have now found that such solutions have many of the properties of the potato root diffusates.
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ELLENBY, C. Root Diffusates of Solanum tuberosum and Digitalis purpurea . Nature 181, 920–921 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181920a0
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