sugar-tissue

Updated: July 27, 2026

Some are as thick as the arm and edible, others are not thicker than a finger and of a woody composition, and the structure of this woody variety is very interesting. The sugar-beet consists, as is generally known, of concentric layers of sugar-tissue and of vascular strands; the larger the first and the smaller the latter, the greater is, as a rule, the average amount of sugar of the race.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation