Recent findings call for the critical overview of some incorrectly used plant cell and tissue
culture terminology such as dedifferentiation, callus, totipotency, and somatic …

Plant transformation has enabled fundamental insights into plant biology and revolutionized
commercial agriculture. Unfortunately, for most crops, transformation and regeneration …

Plants reprogram somatic cells following injury and regenerate new tissues and organs.
Upon perception of inductive cues, somatic cells often dedifferentiate, proliferate, and …

Plants develop unorganized cell masses like callus and tumors in response to various biotic
and abiotic stimuli. Since the historical discovery that the combination of two growth …

Plants as sessile organisms have remarkable developmental plasticity ensuring heir
continuous adaptation to the environment. An extreme example is somatic embryogenesis …

Cell pluripotency is fundamental to biology. It has long been known that differentiated
somatic plant cells may reacquire pluripotency, but the underlying mechanism remains …

Under appropriate in vivo or in vitro conditions, certain somatic plant cells have the
capability to initiate embryogenic development (somatic embryogenesis). Somatic …

Epigenetic mechanisms are highly dynamic events that modulate gene expression. As more
accurate and powerful tools for epigenetic analysis become available for application in a …

Plants have the remarkable ability to drive cellular dedifferentiation and regeneration.
Changes in epigenetic landscapes accompany the cell fate transition. Notably, modifications …

Plant protoplasts (“naked” cells) provide a unique single cell system to underpin several
aspects of modern biotechnology. Major advances in genomics, proteomics, and …