B. pull exerted by the motile organ is relatively feeble, and in the movement of the very small leaflets of Desmodium gyrans or the telegraph plant, for instance, a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gram is enough to arrest the pulsation of the... Researches on irritability of plants - Page 9by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose - 1913 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
| Biology - 1914 - 540 pages
...movement of the leaflet of Desmodium, for instance, a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gramme is enough to arrest the pulsating leaflets. When employing...lever, the extremely minute friction offered by the smoked glass surface of the recording plate is sufficient in this case to cause complete cessation... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1915 - 932 pages
...feeble, and in the movement of the very small leaflets of Desmodium gyrans or the telegraph plant, for instance, a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gram is enough to arrest the pulsation of the leaflets. Even in the leaf of Mimosa the friction offered is enough to introduce serious... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1918 - 928 pages
...feeble, and in the movement of the very small leaflets of Desmodium yyrans, or the Telegraph plant, for instance, a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gram is enough to arrest the pulsation of the leaflets. Even in the leaf of Mimosa the friction offered is enough to introduce serious... | |
| Hereward Carrington - 1919
...scratch of the needle point on the smoked surface offset, very largely, the response of the plant — " a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gram is enough to arrest the pulsation of the leaflets." Still more sensitive apparatus was therefore necessary, and to obtain this... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1915 - 936 pages
...feeble, and in the movement of the very small leaflets of Desmodium gyrans or the telegraph plant, for instance, a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gram is enough to arrest the pulsation of the leaflets. Even in the leaf of Mimosa the friction offered is enough to introduce serious... | |
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