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In a study of membrane potential properties of giant cells induced in the roots ofImpatiens balsamina by a rootknot nematode, trains of action potential-like fluctuations were recorded. Giant cells are multinucleate transfer cells, and it is suggested that the occurrence of action potentials may be characteristic of transfer cells.
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Jones, M.G.K., Novacky, A. & Dropkin, V.H. “Action potentials” in nematode-induced plant transfer cells. Protoplasma 80, 401–405 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01276355
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