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The tobacco explants did not regenerate any floral shoots when they were excised from the mother plant whose flower buds were removed before they developed, while those from the equivalent-aged intact mother plant regenerated floral shoots more than a quarter of the total regenerated shoots.
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Hayashi, M., Kawano, S. & Kuroiwa, T. Evidence for commitment of flowers on the mother plant to floral regeneration inNicotiana plumbaginifolia VIV . J. Plant Res. 108, 107–110 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02344313
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