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. 2005 Jul;138(3):1177-84.
doi: 10.1104/pp.104.900160.

1955: kinetin arrives: the 50th anniversary of a new plant hormone

Richard Amasino  1
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1955: kinetin arrives: the 50th anniversary of a new plant hormone

Richard Amasino. Plant Physiol. 2005 Jul.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Growth of tobacco cells on control medium containing auxin (left) and on the same medium with addition of the silver nitrate precipitable material. This image is from the original work of Miller in 1953.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
The structures of kinetin, adenine, and a furan ring.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
The authors of Miller et al. (1955b). Carlos Miller is on the left. On the right, front to back, are Frank Strong, Folke Skoog, Francis Okumura, and Malcom von Saltza.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.
Plate 4 from Skoog and Miller (1957) showing the effect of the auxin to cytokinin ratio on the pattern of development.
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