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Responses of Seedlings to Animal Embryonal Extracts
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Responses of Seedlings to Animal Embryonal Extracts

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STIMULATION of growth of animal tissues by embryonal extracts of animals is a well-established fact since its discovery by Carnot1. The influence of extracts of plant embryos on the growth of higher plants is still a subject of controversy.

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