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GIBBERELLIC acid has been found to increase the height of a wide variety of plant species in small-scale experiments1,2. We summarize here the results of larger-scale experiments on crops growing in the field which began in July 1953 and continued for the next three years.
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MORGAN, D., MEES, G. Gibberellic Acid and the Growth of Crop Plants. Nature 178, 1356–1357 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1781356a0
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