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Lighting Up Plants' Lives

Feb 06, 2007

In more open-access news, Cold Spring Harbor Protocols posted a freely-accessible article as part of their current issue. This paper contains suggestions for how plant biologists can bypass plants’ cell walls and natural fluorescence to use green fluorescent protein in imaging various plant tissues.

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