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THE leaf of the water fern Marsilea is normally a strictly determinate structure, and even the supply of a wide range of physiologically active substances, to sporelings growing in aseptic culture, has hitherto resulted in no fundamental changes in leaf morphology1,2. Some interesting leaf abnormalities have now been obtained, however, following the addition to the culture medium of the cell-division stimulating substance, kinetin3.
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ALLSOPP, A., SZWEYKOWSKA, A. Foliar Abnormalities, including Repeated Branching and Root Formation, induced by Kinetin in Attached Leaves of Marsilea . Nature 186, 813–814 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186813b0
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