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THE employment of radioautographic techniques has been of much value in botanical studies in demonstrating the presence and localization of tracer elements within plant organs and tissue. In this respect the work of Arnon et al.1, Colwell2, and Harrison et al.3, may be cited as typical. Pearson et al.4 prepared radioautographs of fungus cultures, but stated that because of the limitations of the materials and methods employed it was not possible to obtain radioautographs of single cells or hyphæ. Boyd et al.5, however, were able to obtain single cell autographs of leucocytes and erythrocytes. More recently, Fitzgerald et al.6, using tritium, obtained radioautographs of single yeast cells and Paramecia.
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ADAMS, A., MILLER, J. Detection of Radiophosphorus in Cells and Spores of Fungi by Radioautography. Nature 170, 239 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170239a0
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