1955: Kinetin Arrives. The 50th Anniversary of a New Plant Hormone

Fifty years ago, scientists from the Botany and Biochemistry departments at the University of Wisconsin announced the isolation, crystallization, characterization, and synthesis of 6-furfurylaminopurine ([Miller et al., 1955a][1], [1955b][2], [1956][2]), a plant hormone in a class now referred to as