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Transient DNA Satellite in Dedifferentiating Pith Tissue

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CALLUS formation from Nicotiana glauca pith tissue grown in vitro seems to be a particularly suitable test system for studying dedifferentiation processes in plant tissues. This is mainly because dedifferentiation in this case seems to follow a standardised time sequence on which a considerable amount of knowledge has become available from the cytological point of view1, 2

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PARENTI, R., GUILLÉ, E., GRISVARD, J. et al. Transient DNA Satellite in Dedifferentiating Pith Tissue. Nature New Biology 246, 237–239 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio246237a0

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