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Experimental analysis of cytokinesis: Comparison of inhibition induced by 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile and caffeine

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2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile inhibits cytokinesisin vivo in meristem cells of onion root tips being this inhibition non-permanent in nature. Results from dual inhibition treatments of dichlobenil and caffeine suggest that dichlobenil non-permanently inhibits a metabolic cytokinesis pathway which differs from that inhibited permanently by caffeine. We propose a model for cytokinesis in which at least two cytophysiological pathways occur.

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  1. Departamento de Morfologia y Fisiologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Córdoba, Avda. deMedina Azahara, 7, Córdoba-5, Spain

    María Isabel Burón & G. García-Herdugo

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Burón, M.I., García-Herdugo, G. Experimental analysis of cytokinesis: Comparison of inhibition induced by 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile and caffeine. Protoplasma 118, 192–198 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01281802

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