Life Movements in Plants, Volume IIBose, Jagadis Chandra
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Life Movements in Plants, Volume II
Bose, Jagadis Chandra
Growth (Plants); Plants -- Irritability and movements
It is thus seen that just as in the upper so also in the lower side, the
electric variation undergoes at first an increase which attains a
maximum; beyond this point the electric change undergoes a rapid
decline. The induced electric change on the upper and lower sides are,
however, different, galvanometric _negativity_ in one case and
_positivity_ in the other.
The maximum galvanometric _negativity_ of the upper side was found to
occur at the geo-perceptive layer. We may next inquire about the
anatomical characteristic of the layer in the lower side of the organ
which exhibits the maximum galvanometric _positivity_. Microscopic
section of the specimen employed in the above experiment showed the
particular layer to be the starch crescent which lies above the vascular
bundle. Thus the same geotropic layer which when placed above shows the
maximum galvanometric negativity, exhibits maximum positivity when
placed below.
METHOD OF TRANSVERSE PERFORATION.
_Experiment 191._--I next carried out a complete exploration of the
interior of the organ along the diameter. The probe started from the
upper surface, and came out at the lower by successive steps of 0·2 mm.,
the corresponding geo-electric effects being observed at each step. It
has to be borne in mind that the successive readings were obtained by
rotation from vertical to +90° (A above); the rotation was never carried
out in the negative direction through -90°. But the probe entering from
above passed the central axis, and entered a region where the
galvanometric indication was transformed from negative to positive. The
following table gives the results obtained with the flower stalk of
_Nymphæa_.
TABLE XLIV.--SHOWING THE INDUCED GEO-ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION ACROSS THE
FLOWER STALK OF _Nymphæa_ (diameter = 6·8 mm.)
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