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2 unusual facts about Toshio Murashige


Folke K. Skoog

In 1962, Skoog and Toshio Murashige published what is probably the best-known paper in plant tissue culture; in a fruitless attempt to discover a yet-unknown plant growth regulator in tobacco juice for his doctoral thesis, Murashige and Skoog instead developed a greatly improved salt base for the sterile culture of tobacco.

Toshio Murashige

He is most widely known for his efforts in creating the plant tissue culture medium known as Murashige and Skoog medium.



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