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THE technique of culturing animal tissue in vitro has, on many occasions, received considerable publicity. No comparable public interest has been centred on the cultivation of plant tissues, yet in many ways the results have been at least as important. In animal tissue culture the media used have normally contained tissue extracts and serum, and attempts to produce purely synthetic media have so far met with little success. Media used in plant tissue culture, on the other hand, have in the main been synthetic, and it is not surprising, therefore, that successful continued proliferation of undifferentiated plant tissues in vitro have been achieved only within the last eight years. Most of the successful advances have been made in France or the United States, and in the former country the technique has been developed primarily by R.-J. Gautheret. It is, therefore, with considerable interest that one turns to his account of the subject.
Une voie nouvelle en biologie végétale
La culture des tissus. Par R.-J. Gautheret. (L'Avenir de la science, No. 21.) Pp. 202+32 plates. (Paris : Libr. Gallimard, 1945.) 190 francs.
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BURGES, A. Une voie nouvelle en biologie végétale. Nature 159, 80 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159080b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159080b0