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Recent studies have hinted that plants may coordinate their growth and responses to the environment by using genetic messengers. Scientists investigating pumpkins have discovered that molecules carrying genetic messages are passed through the inter- connected stalks that they are attached to. This finding may have biologists rethink their ways of studying plant genes.
9 OCTOBER 1999, P. 19
New Scientist
9 OCTOBER 1999, P. 19

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