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Although plant cell cultures offer unique advantages as an experimental system for cell cycle research, would-be users should be aware of the problems of culture-induced variation, traceable to a feed-forward cycle involving competitive selection and somatic cell cytogenetics. The most useful contribution of cell cultures has been to provide material with a high degree of synchrony for cell cycle research. Investigations of the control of the mitotic cycle by plant growth substances are bogged down in the slough of signal transduction, currently an area of ignorance. There is a pressing need for more evidence of causal connection between an early biochemical event induced by the signal and signal-induced progress through the cell cycle.
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Hanke, D.E. (1993). Cell cycle regulation in cultured cells. In: Ormrod, J.C., Francis, D. (eds) Molecular and Cell Biology of the Plant Cell Cycle. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1789-0_13
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