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Contribution No. 487 from the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and the Institute for Atomic Research, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. This work has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation.

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Aronoff, S. Photosynthesis. Bot. Rev 23, 65–107 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02930520

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