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VIRTANEN and collaborators1,2 and Ghosh and Burris3 have shown under aseptic conditions that red clover is able to make good growth when supplied with combined nitrogen in certain organic forms (for example, several amino-acids). Virtanen and von Hausen1 reported, however, that white clover grew poorly on organic nitrogen. The finding that these closely related plants differed radically in their nitrogen requirements is of theoretical and practical interest, and has been further investigated by us.
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VANTSIS, J., BOND, G. Nitrogen Nutrition of Clover. Nature 168, 339–340 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168339a0
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