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From: purves@jarthur.claremont.edu (Bill Purves)
Subject: Re: Methanol and plant growth
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In article <1993Jan18.041029.6831@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> ua020@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Toby Sinats) writes:
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>Does anyone have any information about the November 3/92
>article in the New York Times, Increasing Plants Yields With Sun and
>Diluted Methanol? The implications are enormous, yet I have not
>seen other mentions of this study.

See: Nonomura, A.M. and A.A. Benson, 1992.  "The path of carbon in
photosynthesis: Improved crop yields with methanol." Proc Natl Acad
Sci (US) 89: 9794-9798.

William K. Purves
Department of Biology
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA 91711



