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Correlation between the nicotine content of tobacco plants and callus cultures

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Callus cultures of two low-alkaloid lines of Nicotiana tabacum L. had considerably lower nicotine contents than cultures from the respective highalkaloid cultivars which were isogenic except for the two loci for alkaloid accumulation. Thus, there was a strong correlation between the nicotine content of callus cultures and the plants from which they were derived.

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    Alan M. Kinnersley & Donald K. Dougall

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Kinnersley, A.M., Dougall, D.K. Correlation between the nicotine content of tobacco plants and callus cultures. Planta 149, 205–206 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380884

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