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Asymmetric Distribution in the Biosynthesis of Cotton Cellulose-[U-14C]
Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture Berkeley, California 94701, U.S.A.
Autoradiographs of mature cotton bolls which earlier had radioglucose introduced via a thin incision into their peduncles show a marked asymmetry in distribution of the label. Radio-assay shows the specific activity of the cotton fibres on the treated side to be as much as 30-fold that on the opposite side.