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AUTOTROPHY with respect to auxin has come to be regarded as a diagnostic characteristic of plant tumours1–3. Experience shows, however, that spruce tumours in culture are heterotrophic with respect to auxin4. It was therefore decided to transplant living cells from in vitro cultures into healthy seedlings.
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DE TOROK, D. Successful Tissue Transplantation of Auxin-dependent Tumours and some of its Problems. Nature 216, 376–377 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216376a0
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