THE CULTURE OF ALBINO MAIZE

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Abstract
Albino maize plants in water and sand culture were kept alive for several months by artificial organic nutrition with 0.3 [image] sucrose and showed increases in dry wt. above that of the seeds. They produced the same number of leaves as green plants and staminate and pistillate inflorescences. Albino leaves formed starch in the dark when infiltrated with solns. of sucrose and glucose, but, in contradistinction to green leaves, not with solns. of glyce-rine or sorbitol. Some theoretical aspects of the use of cultures of albinos for elucidating certain phases of the photosynthetic problem are discussed.

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