
Some Effects of Ammonia on Plant Metabolism and a Possible Mechanism for Ammonia Toxicity1,2,3,4
H M Vines
R T Wedding
Present address: Citrus Experiment Station, Lake Alfred, Florida.
Received March 19, 1960.
Aided by a grant from the American Cancer Society.
Some of the data reported here are taken from the Ph.D. thesis of H. M. Vines, presented to the Graduate Division of the University of California at Los Angeles, August 1959.
Paper No. 1217, University of California Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside.
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