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IT has been shown that exogenous tritiated DNA can be taken up by germinating barley seeds and be transferred from the endosperm to the growing roots without much degradation, while in the shoots it is apparently destroyed1,2.
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STROUN, M., ANKER, P., CHARLES, P. et al. Fate of Bacterial Deoxyribonucleic Acid in Lycopersicon esculentum. Nature 212, 397–398 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212397a0
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