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IN previous reports on the effect of streptomycin on plant tumours produced by Phytomonas tumefaciens, it was stated that this antibiotic substance would cure a variety of plants of crown-gall1, and that it killed tumour tissue in these galls without influencing normal cells2. To obtain more information about the action of this agent, experiments were performed using in vitro methods which made possible more exact control of dosage and closer observation of effects.
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Hampton, J. E., Phytopath., 38, 11 (1948).
Brown, J. G., Phytopath., 38, 3 (1948).
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DE ROPP, R. Action of Streptomycin on Plant Tumours. Nature 162, 459–460 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162459a0
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