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LIGHT strongly influences many aspects of growth in plants. There have, however, been few studies on the effects of light on cell division in non-green plant tissue cultures. In the course of investigating the physiology of cell division in developing callus cultures of Helianthus tuberosus it has been observed that light can have an inhibitory effect on cell division.
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FRASER, R., LOENING, U. & YEOMAN, M. Effect of Light on Cell Division in Plant Tissue Cultures. Nature 215, 873 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215873a0
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