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Data from 3 types of experiments have shown a stimulation of plant growth by antibiotics: tissue culture, standard laboratory seed germination, and seed germination and subsequent growth in soil. The use of antibiotics in animal nutrition, particularly in the feeding of swine and poultry, is already prevalent. The preliminary experiments here described suggest the possibility that antibiotics might have a practical application in the stimulation of plant growth as well as in the control of plant diseases 7-9). The use of tissue culture technics should prove a useful tool in the study of the mechanism of stimulatory action by antibiotics.
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