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FRUIT culture, perhaps better termed ovary culture, aims at studying the growth pattern and nutritional requirements of growing ovaries. Two pioneer attempts in this direction were those of Jansen and Bonner1 and Nitsch2,3, but these workers did not follow the changes taking place in the ovules. Recently, Anantaswamy Rau4 reared the ovaries of Phlox in artificial cultures. Although the fruits grew appreciably in all these cases, the extent of growth never equalled that in Nature. The size of the fruits obtained was always much smaller than that of fruits produced in Nature.
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White, P. R., “Cultivation of Animal and Plant Cells” (London, 1954).
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MAHESHWARI, N., LAL, M. In vitro Culture of Ovaries of Iberis amara L.. Nature 181, 631–632 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181631a0
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