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In vitro Synthesis of the Crown-Gall Tumour-inducing Principle

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PREVIOUS research on crown-gall has shown that the transformation of normal plant cells into crown-gall tumour cells occurs in delimited stages involving specific causal agents1.

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THOMAS, A., KLEIN, R. In vitro Synthesis of the Crown-Gall Tumour-inducing Principle. Nature 183, 113–114 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183113a0

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