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Re: IF I FERTIZILIZE WITH SUCROSE, will it be



No, the information your wife gave is BADLY OUT OF DATE! ! ! !

As I said, we have now known for about 10 years that endocytosis makes it
possible for any size item to enter a cell, up to the size of a bacterium,
as in the entrance into a root hair of the entire Rhizobium bacterium.

There was a time when it was said that only an item as small as an ion
could enter a cell.

Around the 1940's that was changed to: only small molecules.

But now we know that is not correct, at all.  Any size molecule, and even
clusters of molecules, that are particles, can enter a cell.

And, as I reminded, an entire bacterium can enter a root hair cell, the
same way, now acknowledged to be by endocytosis.

Please ask your wife to dig into the current literature and see that what
she said is now our of date and incorrect.
  It has been known for a longer time that endocytosis is the way human
and animal tissue absorbs nutrients. Now we know it is no different in
plant tissue.

B. Rateaver



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