New insights into tissue culture plant-regeneration mechanisms

Y Long, Y Yang, G Pan, Y Shen - Frontiers in plant science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Plant regeneration occurs when plants repair or replace damaged structures based on the
totipotency and pluripotency of their cells. Tissue culture is one of the most widely used …

Recent advances in crop transformation technologies

Z Chen, JM Debernardi, J Dubcovsky, A Gallavotti - Nature plants, 2022 - nature.com
Agriculture is experiencing a technological inflection point in its history, while also facing
unprecedented challenges posed by human population growth and global climate changes …

Role of basal ABA in plant growth and development

BP Brookbank, J Patel, S Gazzarrini, E Nambara - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Abscisic acid (ABA) regulates various aspects of plant physiology, including promoting seed
dormancy and adaptive responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. In addition, ABA plays an …

A key to totipotency: Wuschel‐like homeobox 2a unlocks embryogenic culture response in maize (Zea mays L.)

FL McFarland, R Collier, N Walter… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of plant somatic cells to dedifferentiate, form somatic embryos and regenerate
whole plants in vitro has been harnessed for both clonal propagation and as a key …

Transduction of signals during somatic embryogenesis

M Elhiti, C Stasolla - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is an in vitro biological process in which bipolar structures
(somatic embryos) can be induced to form from somatic cells and regenerate into whole …

Roles of the wound hormone jasmonate in plant regeneration

G Zhang, W Liu, Z Gu, S Wu, YE… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plants have remarkable abilities to regenerate in response to wounding. How wounding
triggers rapid signal transduction to induce a cellular response is a key topic for …

miR172 Regulates WUS during Somatic Embryogenesis in Arabidopsis via AP2

K Nowak, J Morończyk, M Grzyb, A Szczygieł-Sommer… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
In plants, the embryogenic transition of somatic cells requires the reprogramming of the cell
transcriptome, which is under the control of genetic and epigenetic factors. Correspondingly …

Epigenetic modifications and miRNAs determine the transition of somatic cells into somatic embryos

M Ramakrishnan, M Zhou, SA Ceasar, DJ Ali… - Plant Cell Reports, 2023 - Springer
Key message This review discusses the epigenetic changes during somatic embryo (SE)
development, highlights the genes and miRNAs involved in the transition of somatic cells …

Induction of somatic embryogenesis in plants: Different players and focus on WUSCHEL and WUS-RELATED HOMEOBOX (WOX) transcription factors

M Fambrini, G Usai, C Pugliesi - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In plants, other cells can express totipotency in addition to the zygote, thus resulting in
embryo differentiation; this appears evident in apomictic and epiphyllous plants. According …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic variation as a new plant breeding tool: A review

AO Alfalahi, ZT Hussein, A Khalofah, MT Sadder… - Journal of King Saud …, 2022 - Elsevier
Epigenetic variations are inherited or uninherited effects that occur beyond the DNA
sequence of an individual. However, DNA sequence has a critical role in shaping epigenetic …