Tobacco plants carrying a tms locus of Ti-plasmid origin and the Hl-1 allele are tumor prone.

doi:10.1046/j.1432-0436.1997.6140213.x

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Tobacco plants carrying a tms locus of Ti-plasmid origin and the Hl-1 allele are tumor prone.

Differentiation; research in biological diversity - 1 May 1997

Meyer A D, Aebi R, Meins F

Abstract excerpt

The autonomous growth of plant tumor cells is believed to result from their persistent loss of the requirement for growth hormones such as auxin and cytokinin. The partially dominant gene Habituated leaf-1 (Hl-1) regulates the requirement of cultures tissues of Havana 425 tobacco (Nicotiana tabac...

Topics

Cell Division
Cytokinins
Genes, Plant
Genome, Plant
Homozygote
Indoleacetic Acids
Phenotype
Plant Tumors
Plants, Toxic
Plasmids
Nicotiana
Transformation, Genetic

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