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Cytokinins

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Biochemistry and Physiology of Plant Hormones

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The definitive discovery of the cytokinins occurred in 1955 when C. O. Miller, Folke Skoog, M. H. von Saltza, and F. M. Strong, working in the laboratories of Skoog and Strong at the University of Wisconsin, isolated a substance called “kinetin” (6-furfurylaminopurine, C10H9N5O) (Fig. 4-1) from an autoclaved sample of herring sperm DNA and demonstrated it to be very active in promoting mitosis and cell division in tobacco callus tissue in vitro.

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