This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The microscopic structure of sieve tube elements was studied in fresh hand sections from Cucurbita pepo, Glycine max and Solanum tuberosum.
Sieve tube "slime" is probably fibrillar as suggested by other workers. The granular material seen in electron micrographs of sieve tubes "fixed" with potassium permanganate is mostly a precipitate ...
A CAREFUL examination by E. Russow (Ann. Sci. Nat. xiv. 1882, Nos. 3 and 4) of the structure and development of sieve-tubes leads him to the following general conclusions.