🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <17723@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>I remember reading an old Carolina Biological Supply catalog when I was in
>high school which listed seeds for albino corn and albino tobacco.  These
>plants are dead white because they have no chlorophyll.
>
>To raise one, I believe you had to slice off part of a leaf and attach an
>agar block rich in sugar (or some similar procedure, I am hazy on the details)
>
>I would like to know what kind of sugar or sugars are the best emulation
>of a leaf.  Glucose?  Fructose?  Sucrose?  Or would it make any difference?

Plants may produce many kinds of sugars but they all love glucose :-)

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