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Science 7 August 1964:
Vol. 145. no. 3632, pp. 609 - 611
DOI: 10.1126/science.145.3632.609
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Physiological Studies on Fruit Development by Means of Ovule Transplantation in vivo

Vijaya L. Moosad Melnick 1, Leroy Holm 1, and B. Esther Struckmeyer 1

1 Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Young fertilized ovules belonging to different species, genera, and families were transplanted onto pepper placenta and grown in vivo to mature, viable seeds. This suggests that the physiological requirements for growth of these ovules may be similar between plant species that are quite different taxonomically.

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