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In vitro cultures of angiosperm organs in association with several common free-living bacteria have resulted in callus formation. The gross morphology and histology of these calluses are similar to crown gall tumours produced at the same time under similar conditions. Controls lacking the associated bacterium show little proliferation of cut-surfaces.
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PHILIPSON, W., SHEAT, D. Induction of Callus on Decapitated Hypocotyls of Helianthus by Escherichia coli and other Bacteria. Nature 197, 204–205 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197204a0
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