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CALLUS and callus-like tissues have been reported in a wide variety of plants. Steward et al.1 have described induced organization of intact plants from ‘aggregates’ which accumulated from single cells of carrot callus; Bristow2 has reported induction of discrete fern plants (sporophytic and gametophytic) from his callus cultures under influence of growth substances, and Bauer3,4 has shown that varied sporophytic and gametophytic forms may be induced from callus of moss. This communication deals with aberrant moss plants, gametophytic in form, regularly induced from single-cell callus plantings of Polytrichum commune Hedw.
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WARD, M. Gametophytic Plants induced from Single Cells of Moss Callus. Nature 204, 400 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204400a0
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