Title page of the retracted 1992 Science paper "Activation of a plant gene by T-DNA tagging: auxin-independent growth in vitro” by Hiroaki Hayashi, Inge Czaja, Helge Lubenow, Jeff Schell and Richard Walden.

#PlantScienceClassics #15 #PlantScienceFails #1: The auxin-independent (axi) Nicotiana tabacum lines. In 1992 Richard Walden et al. (specifically co-worker Inge Czaja) published on activation-tagged axi protoplasts in Science that could divide & grow in the absence of any #auxin!