Open AccessMeasuring Cytokinin Levels in the Root Tip by the Zeptomole
Author(s) -
Jennifer Lockhart
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.15.00553
Subject(s) - biology , luck , cytokinin , herring , botany , genetics , gene , fishery , epistemology , auxin , fish <actinopterygii> , philosophy
Perseverance, a competitive spirit, and luck helped Folke Skoog and colleagues isolate and characterize the first cytokinin (CK) from degraded herring sperm DNA samples some 60 years ago (described in [Amasino, 2005][1]). Since then, much has been learned about this vital class of phytohormones,
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