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THE introduction of certain DNA-binding fluorochromes for the analysis of chromosome structure in plants and animals1,2 has led to experiments aiming to discover other fluorescent compounds having such specificity. A preliminary investigation of the properties of the fluorescence of extracts from various plant species has been initiated at the Botany School, Oxford, and at the Istituto Botanico of the University of Rome. The results of this study on ten species of the families Papaveraceae and Fumariaceae are summarized in Table 1.
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VOSA, C., D'AMATO, G., CAPINERI, R. et al. Quinacrine-like Fluorescence of Extracts from Papaveraceae and Fumariaceae. Nature 239, 405–406 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/239405a0
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