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THE amounts of secondary metabolites accumulated by in vitro cultures of plant cells have generally been disappointingly small and attempts to transform exogenous substrates by cultures of plant cells have not hitherto been much more successful1.
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GRAVES, J., SMITH, W. Transformation of Pregnenolone and Progesterone by Cultured Plant Cells. Nature 214, 1248–1249 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2141248a0
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