Recently, Leshem et al. reported4 in vivo experiments with intact pea plants which indicated that enzymatically generated (using xanthine-xanthine oxidase) superoxide anion radical (02~•) induced senescence in plant tissue which was inhibited by kinetin (lc). These experiments (3)
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