plasmolyte Physiol.
(ˈplæzməʊlaɪt)
[f. plasmo- + Gr. λυτ-ός loosed, soluble (f. λύειν to loosen), or f. G. plasmolytikum plasmolyticum.]
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| 1927 Biol. Abstr. I. 238/2 The increase in volume after full plasmolysis is due to penetration of the plasmolyte. 1935 Plant Physiol. X. 119 That concentration of a harmless non-permeable plasmolyte which at osmotic equilibrium causes the protoplasm to recede ever so little from the cell wall. 1939 Ibid. XIV. 132 As a rule a minimal area form is not assumed during the process of plasmolysis but is reached either on standing in the plasmolyte, or at least after a slight degree of subsequent deplasmolysis. 1964 J. Levitt in D. W. Newman Instrumental Methods Exper. Biol. xiii. 419 Potassium nitrate was the plasmolyte used by many of the earlier investigators. |