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Thermofusion of cells
1Department of Physics and Biophysics, Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|March 9, 1990
Abstract:
This communication provides evidence that the thermo-osmotically induced membrane defects and fluxes occurring in plant protoplasts may initiate internalization and fusion of adjacent cells. This phenomenon is called thermofusion of cells.