RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. n.d. Abstract of Sachs, Arbeiten des bot. Instit. Würzburg. CUL-DAR209.6.31. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN1
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Notes for Movement in plants. Text F1325
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Sachs Arbeiten Bd II p 215 1879
Peas seedlings on the Klinostat do not have root the stem in a line with root, but the stem forms a rt or acute angle with stem root backwards (ie away from reverse Sachs curvature)
─ Begin by say that as S finds that this action occurs at base was placed & the Klinostat hid Phaseolus [illeg]
About Faba he only says that Sachs curvature is found with beans grown on the klinostat Bd I, p. 403, 1873
[Movement in plants, p. 91: "We refer to a movement observed by Sachs in the hypocotyls of the bean and some other Leguminosae, and which is shown in the accompanying figure (Fig. 59), copied from his Essay.*
* 'Arbeiten des bot. Instit. Würzburg,' vol. i. 1873, p. 403."]
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