GENE EXPRESSION DURING INDIRECT SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS OF PLANTS

Gene Expression during Indirect Somatic Embryogenesis of Plants

Somatic embryogenesis is the process by which somatic cells are induced into an embryogenic state, followed by differentiation into embryos. Somatic embryogenesis, in addition to being a method of propagation, can serve as an experimental tool for research into plant embryo development. This is a review of the current literature on in vitro plant somatic embryogenesis and the molecular advances...

Gene expression and genetic analysis during higher plants embryogenesis

(1) Univ. Liege Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech. Unit of Tropical Crop Husbandry and Horticulture. Passage des Déportés, 2. B-5030 Gembloux (Belgium). E-mail: [email protected] (2) Walloon Agricultural Research Centre. Department of Biotechnology. Chaussée de Charleroi, 234. B-5030 Gembloux (Belgium). (3) Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie. Department of Agronomy and Plant Biotechnology. Lab...

Somatic Embryogenesis in Forest Plants

Application of Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants.

Somatic embryogenesis is a developmental process where a plant somatic cell can dedifferentiate to a totipotent embryonic stem cell that has the ability to give rise to an embryo under appropriate conditions. This new embryo can further develop into a whole plant. In woody plants, somatic embryogenesis plays a critical role in clonal propagation and is a powerful tool for synthetic seed product...

Expression pattern of the GRAS gene family during somatic embryogenesis in pine

The GRAS protein family of putative transcription factors, which includes SHORT-ROOT (SHR), SCARECROW (SCR) and SCARECROW-LIKE (SCL) proteins, is involved in root development in Arabidopsisthaliana and other plant species [1]. In forest species, genes with homology to the A. thalianaSCR gene have been involved in the induction of somatic embryogenesis in Picea glauca (Moench) Voss [2] and Pinus...