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CELLS of higher plants often retain their usual potentialities when cultivated in vitro. They are able, for example, to regenerate organs or whole plantlets. Yet these properties are not stable and are usually lost some time after isolation of the tissues. The cause of this phenomenon is unknown and it has not yet been possible to influence or control it. In an attempt to clarify the situation we have now been successful in regulating and maintaining the totipotency of carrot cells over prolonged periods.
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REINERT, J., BACKS, D. Control of Totipotency in Plant Cells growing in vitro. Nature 220, 1340–1341 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2201340a0
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