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INCREASING attention has lately been paid to the composition of the protein constituents of the green plants. Important work has been done in this field, particularly by Chibnall and Wright. In the present letter we wish to direct attention to an important but rather neglected question in the study of the plant proteins. One of us (A. I. V.) has already referred to this question in the discussion on the chemistry of grass crops at the recent Norwich meeting of the British Association1.
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VIRTANEN, A., LAINE, T. Amino Acid Content of Plants at Different Stages of Growth. Nature 137, 237 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137237a0
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