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IN the course of a routine examination for the presence of antibiotic substances in higher plants, it was found that an antibiotic of high activity was present in Leptosyne maritima, a member of the Compositæ.
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OSBORN, E., HARPER, J. Antibiotic Production by Growing Plants of Leptosyne maritima. Nature 167, 685–686 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167685a0
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